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E. Grant Gibbons

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16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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So, the obvious question, Mr. Chairman , is why is the money not in the 2018/19 budget?
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Clause 2, I believe it is, yes, clause 2. I am on page 3, right in the middle of the page on the definition of “profit -sharing scheme.” And let me say that I think this issue of notional deemed remuneration has been something which has been needed to be tackled for a while, so …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. If you could clarify that, okay? Let us take another example. The Honourable Member says no. But I would like to, I think for the Bermuda House of Assembly record, we would like to hear it verbally. Let us take another example— [Laughter ]
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Well— [Inaudible interjection]
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Oh, yeah. Let us take another example. Y ou have got a small business, let us say it is a bakery, you have got a husband and wife who run it, they have got some employees and they pay each other what would be considered to be a reasonable salary for that business. At the end of the year they …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. The answer to the first question was interes ting because there is nothing in here which relates to control. So I think this is obviously going to be a policy approach, if I may ask that question. So, in other words, if the employee has no control and gets a div idend, then it seems …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I actually was not going to lead on this particular piece of legislation. My honourable colleague who is coming into the House now had i ntended to do so—the Honourable Member Leah Scott.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , I am pitc hing in.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I am being transparent about it.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , obviously, having been involved with changes to the Partnership Act, the Limited Partnerships Act, and Exempted Partnerships Act over a period of time I think we all recognised that these changes were going to be necessary t o be able to establish a Beneficial Ownership Register. And it is clearly important for us as we face the …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, yes, I was going to say there are some amendments here for clause 3. Hon. Jamahl S. Simmons: Would you like to do the amendments?
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speak er, I think my honourable colleague, Pat Gordon- Pamplin has set out a number of issues and has raised a number of concerns about this particular amendment Bill. I think she has laid the groundwork here. I am going to focus on basically three issues that certainly cause me a great concern with the …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It confirms what I am about to say. It is consultation on the Minister’s terms, not on the terms of the Corporation. If the Honourable Member is hoping to have a partnership going forward, and a consultation with a Corporation, then he is off to a pretty bad start here. No courtesy, not even a heads …
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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I think we all understand that, Mr. Speaker.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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It is really, from my perspective, in terms of suspending an election for a year, it is arrogance. They have the power to it —
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, that is not a point of order.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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—have deferred elections.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Algeria. [Gavel]
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Haiti.
16 Mar 2018 House of Assembly
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Lebanon— [Inaudible interjections] Hon. Walton Brown: Point of order.