Joseph Muscat Quotes on Tax (5 Quotes)

A Labour government would ensure that it was the well off who carried the heaviest burdens and now those with a small income. The people would understand the need for sacrifices when they could see that taxes were raised fairly and spent wisely.

It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.

It was not credible to introduce a tax on cement as a means to protect the environment. This was only a revenue raising measure which home-buyers would suffer.The pollution pays principle was something laudable, but taxes in this sense should only replace other taxes, and not be used to raise revenue.

Crruption was a tax on everyone and that the Delimara contract would have an impact not only on taxpayers money but also on their health.

There are two ways to raise government revenue one is to milk the economy as much as possible the other is to make the economy grow as much as possible. Today, the government is just flogging a horse that is increasingly tired. Its only idea is to increase old taxes, and invent new ones. Our idea is to collect more, not by increasing taxes, but by expanding the economy...