In 2016, just two weeks before a general election, Simon Harris – who was Minister of State at the Department of Finance at the time – confidently assured the public that it was his party’s “absolute commitment” to abolish what he described as the “hated” USC tax:
“Our absolute commitment going into this election is the abolition of the hated USC. It was a temporary measure, it was an emergency measure. If we want the recovery to be felt by every household, every home and every family, then we need to abolish it.”
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