Leo Brincat favours VAT retention
despite personal reservations
By Kurt
Sansone
Labour Party finance spokesperson Leo Brincat may harbour
reservations about VAT but it was a core group chaired by him that
suggested the MLP national executive adopt a motion to retain the
taxation system. READ
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Retailers relieved VAT is here
to stay
By Ray
Abdilla
Dr Alfred Sant's decision that a new Labour government will
be retaining VAT was hailed as good news for the majority of the
business community - especially small businesses in the computing,
ironmongery and stationery sectors. READ
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MHRA head to abstain from council’s
EU vote
By Matthew
Vella
Following his appearance at the PN General Council where
he expressed his personal opinion on EU membership, Malta Hotels
and Restaurants Association President Winston J Zahra said he would
abstain from voting in the council meeting that would be shortly
deciding the MHRA’s stand on the Malta’s EU bid.
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INTERVIEW An InterContinental
for Malta
On Saturday InterContinental Malta will become the latest
entrant into Malta’s five-star hotel sector. As Malta’s
largest hotel in the sector, the InterContinental Malta will
be applying a great deal of focus on conference and incentive
tourism, an area in which Director of Sales and Marketing
Rolf Hebbel tells David Lindsay the hotel is not necessarily
competing with other local hotels but with other Mediterranean
destinations.
OPINION Exploiting opportunities
to the full
Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami on Saturday launched
the newly set-up Lufthansa Technik Malta, which he describes
as a cause for optimism. Fenech Adami also stresses that an
exciting future beckons and that Malta must prepare effectively,
with a mix of vision and action, to exploit new opportunities
to the full
