The opposition yesterday criticised government’s plan to ease the rise in the cost of living and called for the equitable sharing of the $60b of oil revenues received in 2022 and the abolition of income tax for workers in the low to middle wages brackets.
A statement from the office of the Leader of the Opposition charged that during the worst cost of living crisis in living memory, the PPP/C government repeatedly only budgeted $5 billion dollars for direct cost of living mitigation and relief. This, it said, was less than 1% of the total for two of the largest budgets in the country’s history.