Opinion

To GST or not GST has been the States of Guernsey’s perennial question for the best part of the last 20 years, and is up for debate this month. Again...

In the first of a series where we ask deputies to preview each month’s States meetings, Deputy Tom Rylatt looks ahead at what is on the agenda this week.

In yesterday’s article, Deputy Gavin St Pier outlined the long-term pressures on Guernsey’s public finances – two decades of deficits following zero-10, the depletion of reserves, and the demographic forces driving rising health, care and pension costs. Today, he turns to what happens next – the options now under examination: the tax reform package developed by the previous States, and the alternatives being explored of corporate tax reform and expenditure reduction.

In the first of two articles, Deputy Gavin St Pier explains why it is imperative Guernsey undertakes a tax reform sooner rather than later.

Politicians are working with school population figures which they know are inaccurate and unreliable, writes Matt Fallaize.