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sue
As a retiree on a low fixed income - I have roughly calculated that my yearly tax "contribution" has now at least doubled with the introduction of GST. Not impressed!

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food has and allways will keep going up! i think the first post sums things up nicely.End result is allways the same,and there is nothing you can do about IT

Trevor
Many of your readers are quite right - GST should never have been placed on food in the first place, Indeed, we didn't and still don't need GST now. While the simple fact it is to removed is good news I just hope the public see this for the desperate pre-election scam it is. Remember those who voted for this regressive tax time and time again until now and make sure they are voted out come the elections. You can practically count on one hand those who were against GST from even before the last elections and have remained consistent - the JDA, Deputy Breckon et al. Check out the voting records and use your vote accordingly. Senator Le Sueur as CM is a sure ticket to economic oblivion.

sue
they were quick enough to add GST to food so why should it take them until spring for it to be abolished grrrrr - GST should never ever have been added to food in the first place - morons .. :0( - GST should never have happened ... period

Mr Sensible
We all pay through our taxes to employ second rate polititians, who in turn employ via the states ,payroll , spin doctors and various high paid officials who should have warned our puddings who sit in the chamber that GST on food should have not been voted for in the first place.Let us see who of the states members who vote for the removal of GST on food who only a short while ago voted for it. As for the removal of the tax on food consumers will be losers again the stores will remove the 3% but round up to the nearest penny just as they rounded up when they put GST on food , yes you guess correctly we will all pay for the weak willed states members who sit doing nothing, drinking coffee all day in the states chamber meetings instaed of working for the people who voted them in ,roll on the next elections and lets vote these bumbling fools out.

Joker
All the evidence clearly points to one winner if you remove GST on food… the rich. Actually there are lots of other winners… all those who hold shares in food retailers over here (oh – I guess they’re already rich). Is anyone actually that naïve to think supermarkets are going to reduce their food prices by 3%? All that will happen is retailers will hide the GST in the ‘increased cost of food’ get out clause, make more profit and reward their rich shareholders richer.Pathetic electioneering that sets precedence for further exemptions on garbage like the Daily Sport.

David
Watch the lawyers get rich when the arguments and appeals start over what exactly is food. Sweets included, beer ? Plus extra civil servants to administer it all.

Harry
To "Not eating cat food". Can you imagine the complexities of drafting the legislation so that "basic foodstuffs" (whatever they are) may be properly defined. Should we exempt spider crabs - the food of the people - and tax lobsters - the food of our capitalist oppressors? I could cite thousands of examples, I only wish I was working as a Law Draftsman, my overtime payments for the next few months would be massive!

Disaster
Just more problems and cost for the wholesaler and retailer and also the tax collector. Who do you think will pay the cost of implementing the scrapping of GST on food? As far as I am concerned they have been pushed into this. This was a fair tax for all. The rich who spend more pay more, the less well off pay far less. The money collected in tax on food should have been divertly to helping the less well off. Mr Le Sueur you made a decission to have few exemptions. You should have stuck to your guns for the good of all.

Mike Scott
I'm not happy, but all things considered i'll keep my prices at the rate even though i produce 3 rate bread! hmmmmmmm bread that goes off before you leave the shop...bargain

Willy
Thousands told them so and finally the penny has dropped although Chief Minister spins that it "not a climb down".Shops will not reduce by 3% because they have to recover even more costs of relabelling and altering software etc What a debacle !We are now sailing on a rudderless ship with headless chickens at the helm with very rough seas all around usAnd still Terry LS wants to be the next Chief MinisterGod Help us all....

Now eating cat food!
Why wait until Spring? To wait until is just a cynical ploy to see certain people voted back in, as well as the chief architect of GST getting voted in as chief minister!This is electioneering of the cruellest and most callous kind. Those people who find life hard enough will have to endure their first and only Christmas under the jackboot of this tax knowing that it could have been removed MONTHS ago!

Darren
They were told by experts not to add it to food in the first place and why are we waiting 6 more months for this U-turn to actually happen?Yet again another example of the contempt with which Terry le Sueur regards the electorate.This man is clearly not up to the job and should be removed immediately.

Ashley F
The damage has been done. They didn't foresee the implications of their lazy and greedy idea and now the island has pretty much been ruined beyond repair. Do they now presume that shop keepers and stores will go through the effort and cost of swapping back and not transfer that defict onto the customer? Of course they will! Not to mention the fact that shops now know that people will pay these prices (as the have to) and shops will always charge what people are prepared to pay. The whole thing is a disaster.So, basically, they've effectively sold their souls and burned down the island for 55 million a year. It's a joke! If they had some half decent money traders working on the islands finances then they could genorate that kind of money in the same way that every bank on the island does, with huge success, every year. Morons!

Phil
With inflation likely to be 7% by next spring, we can look forward to no GST but still 4 or 5% increases in the cost of food.