WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1990
NO TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS
THE
TODAY
SIR PIERS JACOB, FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON
AMENDMENT (WEDNESDAY) THAT NO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PROPOSED TO THE INLAND REVENUE ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPECIFIC EXEMPTIONS FOR POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS.
TOLD THE WOULD BE GRANTING
SAID
MUCH
DEPENDED
REPLYING
TO A QUESTION
BY
PETER THE HON
WONG,
SIR
PIERS
SAID IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH ORGANISATIONS MIGHT ALREADY BE EXEMPT.
HE ORGANISATION.
UPON THE
CONSTITUTION
OF
THE
"IF, FOR EXAMPLE, A POLITICAL ORGANISATION WERE CONSTITUTED A CLUB AS DEFINED IN SECTION 24(1) OF THE INLAND THEN IT MIGHT NOT BE DEEMED TO BE CARRYING PURPOSES OF THE INLAND REVENUE ORDINANCE.
AS
REVENUE ORDINANCE
FOR ON BUSINESS
THE
"AND THUS, IT WOULD NOT BE LIABLE TO PROFITS TAX,"
SIR PIERS
SAID.
PRIVATISATION OF POLICE DRIVER TRAINING IMPRACTICABLE
*
PRIVATISATION OF POLICE DRIVER TRAINING IS AT PRESENT NEITHER
THE SECURITY, PRACTICABLE NOR COST-EFFECTIVE, THE SECRETARY FOR
HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON J.D. MCGREGOR, MR ASPREY SAID THIS WAS THE CONCLUSION OF A DETAILED STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE POLICE ON THE POSSIBILITY OF PRIVATISING POLICE DRIVER TRAINING EARLY THIS YEAR.
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HE SAID THERE WAS A NEED TO PROVIDE SPECIALISED DRIVING
RESPOND TRAINING TO EQUIP POLICE OFFICERS TO
EMERGENCY OR CALLS, OR TO UNDERTAKE HIGH SPEED PURSUITS.
THIS TRAINING, HE SAID, REQUIRED EXPERTISE CURRENTLY NOT
AVAILABLE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
"FURTHERMORE, EVEN IF A PRIVATE COMPANY WERE TO TAKE OVER TRAINERS AS SPECIALIST POLICE DRIVER TRAINING, AFTER QUALIFYING ITS DRIVING INSTRUCTORS, THE STUDY INDICATED THAT THIS WOULD BE LIKELY COST MORE THAN THE CURRENT POLICE DRIVING SCHOOL, HE SAID.
то
MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT CIVILIANISATION IN OTHER AREAS
THE HOWEVER, BEING PURSUED. AND
POLICE HAD STARTED A SERIES REVIEWS TO THIS END.
WAS,
OF
/AS A
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