separate taxation can be
Nevertheless,
introduced.
I
am confident that
satisfactory solutions can be achieved through consultation with
le the OMELCO Standing Panel on Taxation under the chairmanship of
Se Mr. Peter Poon.
I am
grateful to him for his offer
of.
target date for implementation of separate
assistance. My target
taxation is 1990.
کا alit
se
50.
Sir, I cannot leave this matter without commenting
briefly on Mrs. Rita Fan's remarks that representations by Members on the question of separate taxation were overlooked.
ayse st.
ap
note
1
As Mrs, Fan rightly said, the OMELCO Taxation Panel addressed me on this issue in February 1987. I subsequently argued against separate taxation both in my 1987 Budget Speech, and in my concluding speech, in which I gave a detailed response to Members' comments. In those circumstances, and at that time, it would have been quite illogical to carry out further work on this matter in the light of what I had said.
Members then again
urged that
taxation for
too late to
In any
After I delivered my concluding Speech in last year's debate, I did not hear further from Members of
of this
this Council. until November 1987.
consideration be given to introducing separate working married women. By that time, it was introduce new proposals into my 1988-89 budget strategy. event, I was conscious of the fact that some Members had earlier advocated an allowance for working married women and, bearing in mind the fact that I had decided to grant an allowance this
year, I felt that I should indicate that the allowance was
designed to put money in the pockets of working married women while we considered the best method of implementing full
separate taxation. In doing so, I recognized the possibility
that some might have preferred the allowance route as an answer
however
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