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Cyprus Mail: Press Review in English, 99-05-28

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From: The Cyprus Mail at <http://www.cynews.com/>


Friday, May 28, 1999

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THE GOVERNMENT is to send a £140 million tax hike package to the House for approval next month, Alithia headlined yesterday.

The package would include a two per cent rise in VAT, and the number of items on the VAT-exempt list would be reduced, the paper stated.

There would also be a considerable increase, of the order of seven to ten cents per gallon, in the price of diesel, while unleaded petrol would remain at the same price with leaded petrol going up in price slightly.

Road tax is to be upped by between 20 and 25 per cent and a new 10 to 15 cent tax is to be placed on tobacco, the report suggested, quoting "informed" sources.

_Politis

_ predicted, inaccurately as it turned out, that deputies were ready to strike a back-room deal that would allow them unanimously to approve the 1999 defence budget at the House plenum yesterday.

The paper quoted "well-informed sources" as saying parties had agreed to pass the budget, despite some parties' concerns over provisions for the purchase of advanced weapons systems.

Opposition deputies fear any attempt to buy missiles or the like will be scuppered by the same international opposition that led to the S-300 missiles having to be redirected to Crete.

Parties were now moving towards a compromise whereby they would "freeze" provisions pertaining to the purchase of advanced weapons systems - a move which would force the government to seek House approval afresh before it could actually spend this "frozen" money.

Philelephtheros, like all the other dailies, gave prominence to "revelations" by House president, Spyros Kyprianou, who stated that the G8 was promoting a confederal Cyprus solution. The US and Britain were busily preparing the groundwork for this undesirable settlement scenario and would spring it on the government in the Autumn, the veteran politician said.

Kyprianou, who had passed on relevant information to President Clerides, said he feared the UN would be by-passed with a settlement proposal which would provide for a Nato force on the island to ensure the peace was kept between separate Greek and Turkish Cypriot states.

Simerini, quoting the chairman of the technical chamber (Etek) Nicos Mesaritis, reported that the granting of planning relaxations had become a "tradition" involving a complex and well- established system of favouritism.

Mesaritis complained at a House interior committee meeting that the granting of relaxations for buildings was now standard practice. He said the relaxation "racket" was facilitated by exchanges of favours between government officials and developers.

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