President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar on Wednesday used his address to the organization’s Annual General Meeting to set out the various ways in which he said the Chamber had been successful in exerting “significant influence” on public policy over the past year.
And while he identified “the removal of the controversial Value Added Tax (VAT) on education” as being foremost amongst the lobbying initiatives of the Chamber, Indar listed up to fourteen Chamber undertakings which he said had defined 2017.
Not least among these, according to the Chamber President were the GCCI’s “fierce advocacy for stimulus for the economic sectors that were seeing some form of decline”, its ongoing fight for the removal of the 2 am curfew on night businesses and for the removal of Value Added Taxes on timber products, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and water and electricity.