The European Commission has decided to extend the ambit of the State Aid investigation into Gibraltar’s Income Tax Act 2010. News giant Reuters claims that the EU executive will examine a practice which allows companies to request advance confirmation of whether certain income is subject to tax.
In the latest spat between Government and Opposition regarding legal aid, the Government has insisted that Mr. Figueras continues to hide behind ‘the fact that the GSD did nothing in sixteen years to assist either the legal profession or court users and defendants on legal aid or legal assistance’.
The GSD Opposition’s spokesman for Housing, Edwin Reyes, has said he continues to receive complaints from residents around the Mons Calpe Mews construction site about the excessive noise pollution emanating from the area late at night. The complainants have approached the GSD Opposition as they claim their reports on this matter seem to have fallen on deaf ears no matter which Government Department or Agency they approach.
The Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Feetham has said that he has held very useful meetings today at the Conservative Party Conference with Denzil Davidson, special advisor to the Foreign Secretary and the Minister for Europe, David Lidington. They spoke about a range of issues including incursions, dialogue with Spain and whether there were any plans to include British Overseas Territories in any constitutional talks on a Federal United Kingdom.
The Opposition notes what it describes as the Government’s “angry and entirely predictable reply to the expression of disappointment with the limited reach of the legal aid changes” expressed last week by Opposition spokesman for Justice, Selwyn Figueras.
