Law-abiding citizens pay their taxes every year. It’s obviously a pain because what we get in hand is a shrivelled-up version of our net salary. So why do we do it?
For the common good: to build schools, hospitals, roads and to pay all the civil servants who work for the common good such as teachers, nurses, doctors, policemen, firemen and so on.
Taxes also pay for those people working in the judicial, executive and legislative branches of the country. From court messengers to judges, from parliament clerks to ministers.
Perhaps we don’t stop to think about it much but, with each tax payment we make, we are ensuring that when we go to Mater Dei Hospital we can get treatment, children in government schools are educated, streets are safer and laws are being made and adhered to.
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Minister Ian Borg completes ODZ pool despite ongoing appeal
5 days ago
Transport Minister Ian Borg who was responsible for the Planning Authority until only a few weeks ago, will soon be able to take a dip in his ODZ pool as work has now been completed despite an appeal lodged against the permit.
The Shift can reveal that works on Borg’s pool have been ongoing since last summer even though there is a pending appeal before the Environment and Planning Tribunal (EPRT) claiming that the permit issued to the minister was irregular.
In reply to questions, Minister Borg confirmed the work done saying he was given the go-ahead from the EPRT to proceed.
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Graffitti accuses Ian Borg of lying to public over Burmarrad roadworks
Graffitti says construction of roundabout on Burmarrad road is being done to serve prospective suprermarket development
17 February 2021, 10:38am
by Jonas Simbeye
Moviment Graffitti has called out Transport and Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg, claiming he has misled the public on planned roadworks in Burmarrad.
Graffitti said that Borg claimed in an interview that the destruction of a 500-year-old water reservoir, to make way for a roundabout built outside the site of a proposed supermarket by Bonnici Brothers, was untrue.
The NGO said Bonnici Brothers have already acquired €7.7 million in contracts and direct orders from Infrastructure Malta, in 2020 alone.