INTRODUCING a goods and services tax now would trigger a level of pensioner poverty that the island has never seen, according to a Vale deputy.

WHEN Deputy Mike Hadley fails in his attempt to get the States to sign up to a goods and services tax at this month’s States meeting, it is unlikely to be the last we hear of the idea.

TREASURY minister Charles Parkinson has admitted that the island could regret not delaying the introduction of zero-10.

A GUERNSEY nursing recruitment advertisement damning Jersey’s goods and services tax should never have appeared in the Jersey Evening Post.

THE negative reaction to the new goods and services tax in Jersey will prevent a similar strategy being introduced in Guernsey, according to John Gollop.