{"id":35289,"date":"2026-03-02T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2026\/03\/02\/tax-reform-calculator-launched-in-guernsey\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:23:10","slug":"tax-reform-calculator-launched-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2026\/03\/02\/tax-reform-calculator-launched-in-guernsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax reform calculator launched in Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julia Gregory<\/span>Channel Islands <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The online tool is designed to help people understand the proposals<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Guernsey’s Policy and Resources Committee (P&R) has created an online calculator to help people see how tax reform proposals aiming to raise \u00a350m a year could affect them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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P&R said it meant “anyone can now get a sense on whether they personally would be better or worse off if that package were to be introduced”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deputy Lindsay De Sausmarez, President of P&R, said the calculator had been launched following questions from islanders about the proposals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said: “There’s been so much confusion and uncertainty about what this package might mean for people… Because it does affect individual households finances so directly, we thought it would be a really useful thing to do.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The calculator asked people to enter financial details, including their income, savings, benefits and expenditure, and no details were saved, bosses said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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De Sausmarez told BBC Guernsey that, if introduced, the General Sales Tax (GST) would be part of a package of measures, including reduction in income tax and social security contributions, pensions and other benefits going up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said: “Even after GST has been applied, the modelling shows a majority of households would be better off than they are now because of those other changes.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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P&R said it was exploring alternatives to the tax package and would present its recommendations “on what kind of tax reform would work best in Guernsey” in the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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