Budget date yet to be decided – Premier Smith
He was speaking on Thursday January 21, 2016 at a press conference held at the Central Administration Complex during which he dealt with a number of pressing issues.
“First of all the due date of the budget address will be decided and agreed between myself and Speaker of the House of Assembly Ingrid A. Moses sometime and then an announcement will be made. We haven’t made that decision as yet,” he said.
Our newsroom had confirmed that the Sitting of Monday January 25, 2016, which is the Sixth Sitting of the First Session of the Third House of Assembly, is not Budget Day as had been inaccurately reported by some media houses.
However, when our newsroom made contact on January 19, 2016 with our traditional senior National Democratic Party (NDP) sources, they confirmed those media reports to be untrue.
The same senior source confirmed that they are working on a date when the “Leader” will deliver his Budget address. “It could be a week later from the 25th of January or the following week, but it will be soon.”
It was our newsroom to first and accurately report in an article published January 9, 2016 that there was no Budget date set after Government approved a temporary spending measure last month to keep the Government running until April 2016.
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Tax forms will also no longer need to have accurate information and the use of white out or other methods of erasing irregularities will now be allowed.
It is hope that he benefits of these arrangement will be that companies and residents will no longer need to budget their expenditure as the figures can be adjusted to whatever is necessary later.