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have required a broadening of the tax base to include items of goods and services not covered previously. It took this government two studies and 18 months after coming into office to keep its promise. We do not intend to stop there. As our economy improves, citizens can expect more benefits in the form of even lower taxes and better incomes.

Editor, let me close by quoting Edmund Burke, “To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men.” The government will continue to review the VAT (inclusive of the items of goods and services that are vatable, exempted or zero-rated) and all other taxes, with a view to further lowering, rationalising or making them uniform. Yours faithfully, Winston Jordan Minister of Finance