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  • Title: Financial support of the Economic Growth Plan
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 10/05/2005
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    Answer   The Finance and Economics Committee, in its comment to the report and proposition P.38/2005, has stated that the on-going costs for the Economic Growth Plan will have to …
  • Title: Requests for funding for shortfalls in Parish welfare due to impact of new LTIA benefit
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 13/09/2005
    Reference:
    (b)   if so, will this funding be met from taxation revenues? and,               (c)    what sums, if any, will be required to address this financial burden now and over the coming …
  • Title: Identification of carry forwards balances and budget reporting
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 24/05/2005
    Reference:
    (b)    whether the Committee’s policy to eliminate carry-forward budgets is counter-productive to any Committee’s attempts to reduce spending given that Committees are now aware …
  • Title: Under ITIS what is in place for new entrants to Jersey income tax
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 29/11/2005
    Reference:
    Answer (a)   This information is already in the public domain … For the sake of completeness, however, I can confirm that the ITIS legislation, which was approved by the States …
  • Title: ITIS scheme and those of low income with income tax arrears
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 27/09/2005
    Reference:
    In all cases the Comptroller will ensure that unnecessary worry and concern is avoided amongst those who find themselves in such circumstances … They are as follows   (i)     Where …
  • Title: Adapting the JD Edwards accounting system for States accounting
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 24/05/2005
    Reference:
    Answer   As identified in the Crown Agents report, a specialised IT system will be necessary for the administration of the Goods and Services Tax … The JD Edwards system is a …
  • Title: Look-through provisions proposed under zero ten taxation
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 13/09/2005
    Reference:
    (b)    of the measures that are proposed for this tax to ensure that it is treated by the EU as personal and not company taxation … (c)   how individual tax-payers will declare and …
  • Title: UK Paymaster Generals statement re proposed introduction of zero ten rate in Jersey
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 19/07/2005
    Reference:
    (a)   Is the Committee satisfied that the words ‘designed to be in compliance’ are no different from the President’s media statement on the matter dated 6th July 2005, that ‘my …
  • Title: Tax increases under the proposed new tax measures
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 18/01/2005
    Reference:
    (b)                  complete the table with the additional tax proposed for each salary point                             (i)                  in absolute terms, and …
  • Title: Support for those on low incomes affected by GST
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 13/09/2005
    Reference:
    Would the President give details of the change in parameters and show how they were used to produce the difference in figures and, furthermore, explain the rationale for the …
  • Title: Loss of income tax revenues
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 01/02/2005
    Reference:
    (b)                  whether, in the light of his statement that ‘the maximum level of tax revenues is in the order of £5 to £6 million’, the Committee intends to generate the …
  • Title: The collection of taxes in Jersey
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 25/05/2004
    Reference:
    This equates to –               GST (Jersey)                                                                                  3.88 pence per £1.   Will the President confirm that …
  • Title: When wil the draft Data Protection Law (Jersey) 200- be completed ready for debate
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 03/02/2004
    Reference:
    Question   Would the President inform members when the replacement for the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 1987 will be completed and whether there are any obstacles to hinder it …
  • Title: Effects of proposed tax rate rises on middle earners
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 07/12/2004
    Reference:
    Answer   No one has, as yet, provided a definition of what constitutes ‘middle earners’ and ‘higher earners’ but I can confirm that under the ’20 per cent means 20 per cent …
  • Title: Impact of withdrawal of income tax allowances on Financial Services Industry
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 25/05/2004
    Reference:
    (b)    whether the Committee has evidence that such practice is common-place in the FSI, and, if so, to what extent? and,   (c)   whether the practice of ‘tax compensation’ is …
  • Title: Income tax arrangements of 1(1)(k) residents
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 25/05/2004
    Reference:
    Answer   The Committee is prepared to seek a legal opinion from the Law Officers’ Department on this matter … However, even if the existing income tax arrangements can be …
  • Title: Number of tax avoidance cases and introduction of GST
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 11/05/2004
    Reference:
    Will the President inform members –               (a)   how many cases in total were ruled on in the full year to April 2004 along with the total value involved under Article 134A …
  • Title: Proposed 2005 Budget and income tax proposals
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 23/11/2004
    Reference:
    134A; and,               (c)   new information and enforcement powers … Answer   (a)   The reference to taxation of profits from property development contained on page xvii is in …
  • Title: Proposed tax reforms and paper entitled Facing the Future
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 16/03/2004
    Reference:
    Would the President inform members –               (a)    why, in the Committee’s paper ‘Facing the Future’, the table on page 6 indicates clearly that extra income tax for a …
  • Title: Preventing further hardship for the less well off by protecting Social Security benefits
    Question type: Written
    Asked by: Geoffrey Southern
    Answered by: Finance and Economics Committee
    Question date: 20/01/2004
    Reference:
    Would the President assure members that he will seek to prevent further hardship to those least well off in the community by protecting both the Social Security Benefits system …
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