Several bills lowering fees and another removing corporation tax on private health care in line with the 2020 budget were approved in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
There were no objections to the bills as the opposition was absent from the sitting. Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir informed the assembly that Members of Parliament for A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) had requested leave from Tuesday’s sitting at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
The bills that were passed on Tuesday are the Auctioneers (Amendment) Bill No. 2 of 2020; Corporation Tax (Amendment) Bill No.3 of 2020; Hucksters Licensing and Control (Amendment) Bill No. 4 of 2020; Income Tax (Amendment) Bill No. 5 of 2020; Miscellaneous Licences (amendment) Bill No.7 of 2020; Tax (Amendment) Bill No. 8 of 2020; Value Added Tax Bill No.9 of 2020; and Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill No.10 of 2020. These bills flow from the 2020 budget which was approved on Friday.