Mixed responses to 2011 budget

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh

– small businesses urge more tax relief for wage earners

Even as private sector officials laud the announcement in last Monday’s budget presentation that government will now effect a long sought after reduction in corporate taxes, small business owners and wage earners in the city have assumed a largely indifferent posture, providing mostly a what’s-in-it-for-us res-ponse to invitations from this newspaper to comment on Finance Minister Ashni Singh’s $161.4 billion budget.

On Tuesday, Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Ramesh Dookhoo summoned a media briefing