I recently received a text message from my phone service provider to tell me that as from March 1, a four per cent tax was to be reintroduced on pay-as-you-go top-ups.

This same tax was ridiculed by the Labour Party as unfair when they were in opposition, but now it seems it is OK to re-introduce it, as they are the ones in power today.

This is just another tax on the lower paid working class and elderly citizens, as most of these use pay-as-you-go top-ups because they don’t go on contracts, mostly because they do not use their phones often enough to make a contract monthly payment worthwhile.

What is this ‘new’ Labour party going to do next, bring back the time bar as well? Are they so short of income they have to, once again, hit the lower paid working class?

Having said this, the text message told me that this was announced in the November Budget. It may well have been announced in Parliament but apart from hearing a whisper through the grapevine, I never heard of the intention to introduce this stealth tax until I got the message from my provider.

I think this tax is wrong. The PN obviously thought it wrong , as they dropped it, the Labour Party when in opposition thought it wrong, so why are they re-introducing it again now?

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