Commerce And Employment news


C&E’s telco charges ‘would be passed to the consumer’

TELECOMS providers have warned that proposed charges for use of the communications spectrum in Guernsey would increase prices for consumers.


Regulatory principles of the GFSC under review

THE way the Guernsey Financial Services Commission operates and its regulatory principles are to be reviewed.


‘We have done a lot in a short period of time’

THE first indication of Guernsey’s new economic development strategy should be published during the summer.


Islands should work together on tourism – Skal International president

GUERNSEY and Jersey should work more closely together to promote tourism in the islands, according to the president of Skal International.


‘We didn’t decide on pay rise’

NEARLY 65% of islanders feel deputies should not have a 3.2% pay rise, an online poll has shown so far.


Island set to go for ‘RDR light’

FINANCIAL advisers in Guernsey are set to have to follow a bespoke ‘light’ version of the UK Retail Distribution Review from 2015.


Unfairly dismissed employees losing out as firms go under

COMMERCE and Employment has admitted that it is powerless to help people who have won claims for unfair dismissal but have not got their money.


UK water companies are NOT using CISX to avoid tax

THE States has defended the Channel Islands Stock Exchange over claims it is being used by UK water companies to avoid paying millions of pounds in tax.


Fulfilment sector shrinks by 50%

GUERNSEY’S fulfilment sector has contracted by around 50% since the loss of low value consignment relief, Commerce and Employment has confirmed.


No guarantee of ‘Guernsey’ filming taking place in island

LACK of tax incentives could disrupt plans to film part of the ‘Guernsey’ film in the island, the film’s producer, Paula Mazur, has warned.

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