Richard Digard

Whatever flavour of new tax the States comes up with, the fundamental question after the last MyGov debacle is how badly will it mess up introducing the IT and systems needed to collect it? And in turn that raises an even scarier question – are we capable of running the island in a 21st-century world?

Which is why it’s so important to have the right people in place who can actually deliver what the island needs. The problem is, new reports show, we don’t have them. Oh, and the system itself stifles innovation.