No ease yet

WORKERS EXPECTING to get more cash in their pay packs from this month will have to wait a little longer.

That’s because Government is yet to put the legislation in place to effect the reduced levels of personal income taxes announced in the Budget a month ago.

In the June 15 Budgetary Proposals, Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler said: “It is proposed that with effect from income tax year 2015 . . . and in an effort to ensure that taxpayers are not unduly disadvantaged by [tax deduction] changes, I now propose that the current tax rate of 17.5 per cent will be reduced to 16 per cent and the higher rate of 35 per cent to 33.5 per cent.”

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