Government Rejects Statistics That Show Southern Bias

The Minister responsible for the Government’s planned tax changes has called it ‘farcical’ that he has weighted tax reforms to benefit those citizens who live in Centrist controlled states. Yevginy Kalandarshivilli, the Minister responsible for Finance, Industry and Trade said that proposals had been ‘consulted’ with state authorities and figures ‘agreed’ before any proposals were placed into a final bill before both houses. The most controversial change promotes a new lower-rate of business tax aimed at small companies operating in newly established ‘enterprise zones’ – 80% of which are housed within the southern, Centrist controlled, states. Lazar Ulanov, who currently is the temporary leader of the opposition Union Party said his party was ‘disgusted’ with the idea that the Polasciana Centrist government was ‘starving’ underprivileged northern communities from the ‘new opportunities’ of the south