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Costing held

Relief is funded only once the revenue plan is published; the costing is held for the fiscal annex.

Commitment 06

Systems That Work

Cheaper groceries that don't come with an expiry date.. Relief you can count on.

Duty relief on the food basket – maintained, costed, and paid for in the open. Not a three-month favour.

Pillar

Systems That Work

Commitment

06 / 07

Scope

Food basket

Begins

First 100 days

The Mechanism

What we will do.

The mechanism, in four parts. Plain, not marketing.

Water

Duty relief maintained on essential food.

How

Reviewed and costed, with the revenue plan published alongside it.

The rule

No cut announced without showing how it is paid for.

Delivery

Relief maintained from the first hundred days.
The Argument

Why it matters.

Earlier this year the government cut duties on food, medicine, and household goods – then let the relief expire after three months, putting the tax back on your groceries. Relief you can feel and then lose is not relief. It is a reminder of who controls the till.

01

Cost of living is the number-one concern.

In every Virgin Islands survey. Source held

02

The government already conceded the point.

They cut the duties themselves, then let them expire.

03

You feel this one at the till this week.

Not in a future you have to imagine.
The Believability Layer

How it works.

The questions a voter actually has, answered plainly.

Where

Country-wide, every store, every island.

Who Benefits

Every household that buys food.

Form It Takes

Maintained duty relief on essential food, set out on a published list, reviewed and costed.

Protections

A published revenue plan, so the relief is funded and not a deficit dressed up as a gift.

How & When

Relief maintained from the first hundred days, reviewed on a public schedule.
Cost & Credibility

The case.

What it costs, who pays, and why it works. Where a figure is not yet sourced, it is held – not guessed.

A What It Costs & Who Pays

The cost of maintaining relief is being costed now, with the revenue plan published alongside it. Every cut is offset before it is announced – funded, not financed.

HeldCosting held for the fiscal annex.

B Why It Works

The government’s own order is the proof the relief works and the proof it can be done – they did it, and people felt it. The difference is that we maintain it and show the funding, instead of letting it lapse.

The Receipts

Every number on this page carries a source before it goes live. If it cannot be sourced, it does not go on the page.

Link to the gazette

The duty cut and its three-month expiry – Customs Tariff (Reduction) Order, the relief introduced and let expire earlier this year.

Named in the order

The basket: food, medicine, hygiene, and household goods named in the order.

Held for the fiscal annex

Cost of maintaining relief.

Confirm survey + link

Cost of living ranks first in public concern.
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