Public Forum on “Goods and Services Tax (GST): Visions or Missions Impossible?”
You are cordially invited to cover the following event:
Event: Public Forum on “Goods and Services Tax (GST): Visions or Missions Impossible?”
(Programme rundown attached)
Date: Saturday, 18th November 2006
Time: 2:15pm – 5:30pm
(Media representatives please assemble at 2 p.m. at the reception counter of 4/F,
Venue: Multi-Media Conference Room, 4/F,
In light of the consultations on proposals put forward by the Government of the HKSAR to introduce a Goods and Services Tax (GST), City University of Hong Kong (CityU) will host a public forum to promote discussions on the economic, ethical and social policy perspectives of the issue.
Speakers will include Mr Frederick Ma Si-hang, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, and academics from CityU, including Professor (Chair) Stephen Cheung Yan-leung of the Department of Economics and Finance; Professor Julia Tao Lai Po-wah, Director of the Governance in Asia Research Centre; and Professor Martin Painter, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The forum will also feature a session in which speakers will talk about the experience of introducing GST in
For media enquiries, contact Karen Cheng at 3442 6805 or 9201 8895, or Regina Lau at 3442 6807 or 9361 9515.