Carl Meerveld, who lost his seat in the States last June, will host a presentation to the public at Les Cotils this Sunday at 3pm to discuss the public funding options open to States members.
He will be joined by Deputy Liam McKenna, who is leading an amendment at next week’s States meeting attempting to force an early decision by this new States to take GST off the table for deputies.
And Deputies Simon Vermeulen, Haley Camp and Rob Curgenven will also appear on the panel.
‘The majority of deputies opposed the introduction of GST in their manifestos when elected just eight months ago,’ said Deputy McKenna.
‘Next week the Assembly is being asked to approve committing further funds and resources to exploring the introduction of GST yet again.
‘The amendment I am laying with the support of Deputy Vermeulen calls on all the deputies who said they oppose the introduction of GST to honour their commitment to the electorate by opposing the introduction of GST now, avoiding any further wasted funding on something the vast majority of our community does not want.’
Mr Meerveld said that progress continued towards the introduction of the controversial tax ‘in an environment of constant revelations of huge financial losses from failed, mismanaged projects, and a tax department still years behind in collecting income taxes owed’.
‘Surely, the financial mismanagement within the States must be addressed before raising additional funding to sustain a clearly broken system,’ he added.
‘We cannot tax ourselves into prosperity.’
Mr Meerveld said that the States has never had the ‘difficult conversation’ about limiting the breadth of services provided by the state and not fully exploring raising income without increasing taxes, including the expanding the scope and opportunity of offshore wind power.
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