Announcing policies aimed at “moving Antigua & Barbuda from its knees to its feet,” United Progressive Party leader Harold Lovell has said in his New Year’s message that there will be a repeal of the Unincorporated Business Tax (UBT) and no return of Personal Income Tax (PIT).
Describing the UBT as “killing entrepreneurship” Lovell promised to “repeal the job-killing” tax.
He said this was one of the measures meant to create employment coupled with keeping the PIT off the books.
In his New Year’s message, Lovell paints a bleak picture of 2017 while promising better times ahead with under a UPP administration.
Listen to the full statement here:
