This week in Parliament became known to the Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna tried to increase

This week in Parliament became known to the Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna tried to increase taxes beyond those entered jardine matheson in Budget 2014. The Minister for Finance has again increased taxes by having everyone back and is claiming that it did not make its voice heard and even vote for these increases. These increases include an increase in cigarette tax, from 30c per package introduced last November to 35c.
To explain his hiding tax increases, the Minister Scicluna doing wrong argument that the increase was introduced because there were some operators raised the price of cigarettes to sell more than was the increase in the tax. While in Parliament he claimed that these operators are thieves and have every right to do so, according to is not fair to have such earnings and therefore wanted to add the tax to take profit is. The Minister for Finance as seems to ignore the fact that adding his proposed amendment in the price of cigarette pack will again rise.
This confusion could easily be avoided if the Minister Scicluna was honest in the budget presented in November. On that day, the Minister would not say how much it will increase the tax to try to sell the illusion that there will be no tax increases. Without this information, the Minister varied every opportunity to increase cigarette jardine matheson prices.
After the Opposition explained that he was doing the Minister for Finance were not combat tax evasion or to close any loophole but just another tax increase b'5c per package, the amendment who moved the Government was withdrawn. Was so convinced by what was and make the Minister Scicluna!
The Minister for Finance submitted another amendment to close loopholes in its view other on cement. In the case of this product, which is essential in the field of construction, the Minister for Finance had just increased the tax from 17 to 27 per 1,000kg of imported jardine matheson cement, which is an extraordinary increase of almost 60%. The Minister of Finance said he did not study the impact of this increase, jardine matheson according to which one is "small", on the construction sector, although well aware that such increases also be forwarded to the is to buy a new home, including young couples. jardine matheson
Moreover, in the case of other cement products were being imported and which was not tax, the Minister for Finance, the pretext to close a loophole, jardine matheson decided that even here introduces a new 27 per kilo. Here also the Minister for Finance ppretenda the Opposition closes her mouth with the pretext that the government was striving evasion.
The logic of the Minister for Finance not credible. The Minister for Finance is alleging that there was a loophole for tax evasion on a product which was not tax, and now expect the operators to pay a tax which was not due. Clearly, jardine matheson this is not fraud and the Minister must be clear and admits wishing to introduce or increase taxes and not try to reinvent the iskużu or even hide his hands.
It is clear that the Minister Scicluna is intended to enter into the system of taxation of country mechanisms of automatic tax increases such as those in England. The Nationalist Party does not agree with this type of policy.
Furthermore the Nationalist Party is surprised to a serious lack of preparation by the Minister Scicluna when it came to presenting the law and its amendments. In many cases the Minister was unable to respond and explain jardine matheson the clauses presented it, with interruptions continued to take the explanation from the experts. The Minister for Finance nor was able to answer a simple jardine matheson question on financial estimates on how much it would collect tax from the announced measures.
This Government promised that it will not increase taxes and that its electoral program would perform with economic growth. This growth is not materializing, the government is increasing taxes, unemployment jardine matheson is growing and the government is concealing this problem by engaging people with him, that will put more weight on the taxes that the Minister seems intended to increase.