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This debate is too polarized.
Yes the Govt needs all the rev it can get to face the Tsunami.
However, I do agree that some of the tax proposals are ill-advised, as they create too much contention and the ultimate payoff is not there, as often it is too expensive to collect tax on sub-categories like book. They should perhaps tax magazines and leave books alone, for example.
As for computers, I say that one-one computers brought in via in-bound flights should be duty free. That means if Auntie MAVIS BRINGS down a computer as a Gift from Canada, it should NOT be taxed. Computers bought in retail stores in JamRock should attract normal GCT or a reduced rate GCT of say 10%. Computers bought thru schools (limit 1 a year) should be duty free. That should take care of most situations.
Almost every group in Jamaica is currently clamouring for an exemption, education, sport, drivers, arts, and many of them are valid. however, the pain will ultimately be felt by all and most will be denied. I also agree that sin taxes should have been increased, even as I know they have previously been taxed to death, but what are the choices?
In reality, our backs are against the wall, reckoning day draws nears and as Mo sez, we fiddle while Rome burns.
Yes the Govt needs all the rev it can get to face the Tsunami.
However, I do agree that some of the tax proposals are ill-advised, as they create too much contention and the ultimate payoff is not there, as often it is too expensive to collect tax on sub-categories like book. They should perhaps tax magazines and leave books alone, for example.
As for computers, I say that one-one computers brought in via in-bound flights should be duty free. That means if Auntie MAVIS BRINGS down a computer as a Gift from Canada, it should NOT be taxed. Computers bought in retail stores in JamRock should attract normal GCT or a reduced rate GCT of say 10%. Computers bought thru schools (limit 1 a year) should be duty free. That should take care of most situations.
Almost every group in Jamaica is currently clamouring for an exemption, education, sport, drivers, arts, and many of them are valid. however, the pain will ultimately be felt by all and most will be denied. I also agree that sin taxes should have been increased, even as I know they have previously been taxed to death, but what are the choices?
In reality, our backs are against the wall, reckoning day draws nears and as Mo sez, we fiddle while Rome burns.
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