Strengthening the middle
Salaries and income taxes are less inevitable than the old canard about death and taxes would have you believe. Historically, income taxes were usually introduced to finance war. Similarly the salaries tax in Hong Kong was not introduced until 1940. Whilst suspended during the Japanese occupation, it resumed in 1947.Continue reading>
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>