Basseterre, St.Kitts (Team UNITY Communications):- Leader of the historic Team UNITY, Dr. Timothy Harris has announced that the new UNITY Government will remove the Value Added Tax (VAT) from food, medicine and educational materials.
Harris told a massive crowd at the Team UNITY launch at Greenlands as well as subsequent UNITY events at George Street and Bank Street that as part of the Team UNITY Prosperity Agenda the UNITY government will embark upon and implement a policy of the removal of the VAT on food , medicine and educational materials.
The former Minister of Finance, Industry ,Trade and Commerce said “VAT at 17% has become oppressive to the poor and has drawn too many people in the poverty line. We must have poverty alleviation as one of our goals with nearly 33 percent of our people living in poverty.
But it is not just a moral imperative to help our people balance their lives, but even our small and large businesses are complaining that vat is stultifying their businesses, undermining their cash flows , reducing their turnover and in many cases the small businesses have had to close their doors . By removing vat we facilitate more small and medium size enterprises to weather the storm “
The UNITY Movement leader also told thousands at the Team UNITY Launch at Greenlands Park , "We care, and because we care we made the move to do something for you. I promise and we in Unity commit that in our first term we will pull VAT off food and medicine. We will bring you relief and we will remove it from educational materials."
Dr. Harris also highlighted his very humble beginning and gave the world an insight into his poor and poverty-stricken upbringing and vowed to eradicate poverty in the federation through Team UNITY’s Prosperity Agenda
The dynamic former Senior Minister said "I lived [in] poverty and I understand the dehumanising conditions of poverty, and I pledge as the Leader of Team Unity and the Leader of the Nation, we will work overtime to alleviate poverty in St. Kitts and Nevis."
The removal of VAT from Food, Medicine and Educational Materials as well as Universal Access to Early Childhood Education or Free Pre-School are part of Team UNITY’s visionary Prosperity Agenda . Other policies of the Prosperity Agenda will be rolled out in the coming days and weeks.
The Prosperity Agenda was designed to return prosperity to the federation, put the country back to work and create opportunities for all. Dr. Harris said Unity's Prosperity Agenda would rely on the pillars of Tourism, Agriculture, Financial Services , Manufacturing and Alternative Energy.
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