Jersey R & O 9025
FINANCE (JERSEY) LAW 1997 (COMMENCEMENT) ACT
Act dated 3rd December 1996
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-seven; to amend further the law relating to income tax to alter certain
personal allowances, and with regard to the deduction of tax from certain
payments not made out of profits or gains already taxed, and in respect of
annuity contracts; 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 4th day of December 1996)
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The 3rd day of
December 1996
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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-seven; to amend further the law relating to income tax to alter certain
personal allowances, and with regard to the deduction of tax from certain
payments not made out of profits or gains already taxed, and in respect of
annuity contracts; 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.
G.H.C. COPPOCK
Greffier of the States.