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Year2016
Votes128
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Source: The Daily Herald
13 Feb 2016 01:25 AM

Cft Sends Govt. 'Recommendations' On Budget, Debate Now Set For Feb. 29

Finance Minister Richard Gibson

PHILIPSBURG--The Committee for Financial Supervision CFT has sent Finance Minister Richard Gibson five "suggestions" for the draft 2016 budget, which if taken up the Committee would be more inclined to give the budget its nod of approval.

  Gibson said in a press conference on Friday afternoon that the suggestions will be worked on by Government Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
11 Feb 2016 08:49 AM

Tot Is ‘Disruptive’ To Growth, Says Gibson

PHILIPSBURG--The five-per-cent turnover tax (ToT) is “disruptive” and an “impediment to economic growth” due to its “multiplier effect” on the cost of goods and services, Finance Minister Richard Gibson told Parliament on Wednesday.

“We have to do away with it or move it down,” Gibson said of the ToT. He has the same belief about the country’s profit tax. It is tough to enforce the profit tax system, he said Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
09 Feb 2016 02:59 PM

‘Shotgun Budget’ Tabled In Parliament By Gibson

Finance Minister Richard Gibson (right) with MP Maurice Lake

PHILIPSBURG--Parliament is faced with a “shotgun budget” as the draft 2016 budget was described by Finance Minister Richard Gibson Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
08 Feb 2016 07:34 PM

‘Shotgun Budget’ Tabled In Parliament By Gibson

PHILIPSBURG--Parliament is faced with a “shotgun budget” as the draft 2016 budget was described by Finance Minister Richard Gibson. The Minister tabled the budget, totaling NAf 438,000 in the Central Committee meeting of Parliament on this morning.  

  There is “no time to do the budget as it should have been done” and to get all policies from the seven ministries covered, said the Minister Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
04 Feb 2016 07:47 AM

Gibson: Naf. 20M ‘Reserve’ Projected In Draft Budget

PHILIPSBURG--The draft 2016 budget, though “lean and mean,” is projected to have a NAf. 20 million “reserve” should all projections become reality, according to Finance Minister Richard Gibson. That reserve will be funnelled to paying a part of Government’s debts to Social and Health Insurance Fund SZV and the General Pension Fund APS Read more


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