VOL. XXXVIIINO. 531-OCTOBER-1994

Budgets & Revenues

Kuwait Abandons Defense Tax Proposal In Favor Of Voluntary Contributions

The Kuwaiti Government has dropped an earlier proposal to impose a defensetax on Kuwaiti and foreign wage earners to help defray the cost of the recentdeployment of US and other troops in the Gulf and has instead announced that itwould welcome donations on a voluntary basis. A defence tax of 10% waspreviously mooted. At its weekly meeting on 23 October, the cabinet...