Treasury ‘needs your support’

Friday 22nd January 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

Kevin Keen

THE business community has been urged to support Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf’s battle to reduce the public sector budget deficit.

A total of 250 business leaders heard the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce’s retail sub-committee, Kevin Keen, issue a rallying cry at a special lunch earlier this week.

Mr Keen urged industry leaders to back the Senator’s efforts to drastically reduce the expected £50 million-a-year structural deficit. ‘Give Senator Ozouf some support. Not many of us can do with new taxes. I know I can’t,’ he said.

Chamber of Commerce president Ray Shead repeated a message he had already uttered publicly that there was an urgent need to reduce States’ spending. He said that revenues raised from taxation should be concentrated on the provision of core services, such as health, education and policing.

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david brown

January 22, 2010 at 9:27 pm

ok if the unemployment line does not grow any bigger.
at what figure does unemployment become a serious issue in the island, 100, 2000 3,00?
no more steam clocks and other trival rubbish.
and a bit of make do and mend.

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david brown

January 22, 2010 at 9:30 pm

i must get a better keyboard(one day)
the figures for un employment should be , 1000, 2000, 3000.

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