'Backlash rules out GST here'

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.

He was in favour of introducing the tax when the States discussed it during the zero-10 debate.

'The reaction in the short term in Jersey makes it very unlikely that Chief Minister Lyndon Trott and Treasury minister Charles Parkinson would wish to implement the legislation that we approved in principle during the zero-10 debate, which was to put a GST law on the books as an unpopular option for the future,' he said.

An anti-GST political party, Time 4 Change, has been formed. It seeks the reversal of the tax and has called for all politicians who backed it to be removed from office.