Blog posts pertaining to the Economy
From out of nowhere, this flu-like virus has upended the world’s financial ecosystem and Guernsey is certainly not immune. We have our own first case, apparently as a consequence of a trip to Tenerife, which has been highlighted as a risk for some time now. Whatever, it means that we now have to deal with…
Charles Parkinson, President of the Economic Development committee, defends his use of a subsidy to Flybe (for providing a single flight a day to Heathrow for a number of months) on the basis of a resulting £3.3 million contribution to the economy. Hmm. Well, we do know for sure that it initially cost the taxpayer…
During the debate on NICE, Deputy Trott states categorically that “Taxes will be going up”. Nice to hear a politician being honest – and a good indication of the current thinking of P&R……
Listening to the States debate the proposals to be considered for future taxation, both Deputy Roffey and Deputy Trott (strange bedfellows to be sure) – confirm their view that ‘social engineering’ is perfectly acceptable. That is a shortform to describe removing choices from the individual in favour of imposition from the Government – who believe…
You couldn’t make it up. In their desperation to extract more money from the motoring public (to spend on yet more unnecessary vanity projects), E&I announce today that they may well take another look at bringing in a tax which would be aimed solely at individual’s who enjoy a parking space courtesy of their employer.…