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Zero-10
States can’t control its own pay rises
STATES payroll costs are rising well above inflation, despite a government pledge to control expenditure.
Facing economic Armageddon
With the release of the Budget and a recession on the horizon, Nick Mann asks if the States has got the stomach to face the tough decisions ahead?
Budget lets you keep more of your money
TREASURY minister Charles Parkinson today unveiled a conservative Budget as he admitted for the first time that the island was sliding into recession.
Guernsey is heading for its own recession
GUERNSEY is set for a recession, Treasury minister Charles Parkinson has predicted.
Not an easy time for a first Budget
TOMORROW sees the announcement of Guernsey’s 2009 Budget, Charles Parkinson’s first as Treasury and Resources Minister.
Indirect tax rises are likely way to balance books
With Guernsey’s Budget due later this week, Teodora Vallone, senior tax manager at Ernst & Young, looks at Treasury minister Charles Parkinson’s revenue-raising options and considers the impact a goods and services tax would have.
Too hard, so States won’t tackle it
ANYONE who has followed the emergence of the island’s zero-10 taxation strategy, the latest Budget and now the comments of the Treasury minister published today will realise that something of a crossroads has been reached.