Comments on: ‘Tax Reductions Mean More Take-Home Pay’

By: What

What — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:11:47 +0000

after the healthcare cost increase and inflation you get nothing. This was a cheap vote stunt that cost nothing and ended up costing us the Bermudian more.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:16:41 +0000

With all of the little trinkets of less payroll tax and less this and that where is the money coming from to make up the shortfall in tax income?

Must be the CIT. Can’t say that any cuts have been made in the cost of running Government. Maybe another quiet dip into the Sinking Fund.

Out on the street any cut in payroll tax will be gobbled up by the increase in health insurance, the coming surge in inflation caused by events outside of Bermuda, the whopping increase in fuel about to hit, and all of the increases in Government fees that most do not see on a day to day basis. The sneaky fees tacked onto the fees.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:19:32 +0000

You don’t have to fool all of the people all of the time. You just have to fool enough people most of the time.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:06:13 +0000

“they’re simultaneously met with rising living costs”

On the brighter side, our rate of retail price inflation has been consistently lower than that of the U.S., U.K. and Canada for the past 5 years according to our Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance.

Bermuda is defying generally accepted economic principles!

Bermuda truly is another world!

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:46:16 +0000

“The payroll tax reductions will take effect on April 1, 2026, ensuring workers and businesses begin seeing the benefits in the new fiscal year.” Funny how they forgot to say this is in fact a reduction in take home pay for the lower paid because the Standard Premium Rate for health insurance is increased by more than the reduction in payroll tax. Burt doesn’t even try to be truthful.

By: Mr. Apathy

Mr. Apathy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:40:53 +0000

“These payroll tax reductions mean more take-home pay for workers.”

That statement is ludicrous on so many levels.

Payroll tax deductions amount to nothing when they’re simultaneously met with rising living costs, rising cost of goods (*cough cough Sugar Tax *cough), rising fuel costs, and increasing insurance/healthcare premiums.

Burt’s either increasingly delusional or pathologically dishonest. Neither is good for Bermuda.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:19:52 +0000

“These payroll tax reductions mean more take-home pay for workers,”

And less money for the PLP Government to have to reduce our nearly $4 BILLION in current account debt or our billions more in unfunded pension liabilities.