Hong Kong needs to decide what it wants to be
Andrew Work (12th January 2007) Who are we? More importantly, who will we be tomorrow? Hong Kong has engaged these questions as we mark the end of our 10th year as a Special Administrative Region. We are special today, but how we will be special tomorrow? Will we be specialContinue reading>
Rest in peace, GST
Andrew Work and Wallace S.T. Chan (SCMP, 18th December 2006) Members, associate scholars, staff and supporters of The Lion Rock Institute were thrilled, we are sure, to see the headlines heralding the demise of the proposed goods and services tax earlier this month. Many groups in Hong Kong came outContinue reading>
Budget 2006-2007 Special: The Language of Taxation
(10th March 2006) This article was written before the release of the 2006 Budget.Budget day has arrived again and all Hong Kong eagerly anticipates the government’s spending plans in 2006-2007. Cries for increased spending by welfare advocates and for tax cuts by politicians reveal a startling fact about political discourseContinue reading>