Senator in late bid to delay GST
Thursday 20th March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.
AN 11th-hour attempt to put off GST for a year is to be put to the States.
The 3% tax is due to be levied from
1 May but Treasury Minister Terry
Le Sueur wants to put it off for a week to avoid confusion over two Bank Holidays at the start of May.
However, Senator Len Norman, a long-standing opponent of the tax, has tabled an amendment to the Treasury Minister proposal to delay the introduction of GST until 5 May 2009.
He says that since the States debated the last proposal to put off the tax
last year, the financial position has
improved.
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