Jersey R & O 9179
FINANCE (JERSEY) LAW 1998 (COMMENCEMENT) ACT
Act dated 3rd December 1997
bringing into force a Bill to continue certain expiring fiscal Laws; to
prescribe the standard rate of income tax for the year nineteen hundred and
ninety-eight; to amend further the Law relating to income tax to alter certain
personal allowances and reliefs, to exempt certain payments from income tax, to
alter the charge payable on an application to be treated as an exempt company
and to provide for the variation of the rate of tax chargeable on certain
profits or gains of an international business company; and to amend the Laws
relating to wines and spirits duty, beer duty, tobacco duty and oils and
spirits duty.
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(Promulgated on the 3rd day of December 1997)
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The 3rd day of
December 1997
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THE STATES, in pursuance of Article 25 of
the Public Finances (Administration) (Jersey) Law 1967, as
amended, have declared that the Bill to continue certain expiring fiscal Laws;
to prescribe the standard rate of income tax for the year nineteen hundred and
ninety-eight; to amend further the Law relating to income tax to alter certain
personal allowances and reliefs, to exempt certain payments from income tax, to
alter the charge payable on an application to be treated as an exempt company
and to provide for the variation of the rate of tax chargeable on certain
profits or gains of an international business company; and to amend the Laws
relating to wines and spirits duty, beer duty, tobacco duty and oils and
spirits duty (which Bill has this day been lodged “au Greffe”)
shall immediately have effect as if it were a Law passed by the States and
sanctioned by Her Majesty in Council.
C.M. NEWCOMBE
Deputy Greffier of the States.