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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2015 News Members of Nexia International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and consulting firms GLOBAL EXPERTISE, LOCAL REACH ADVISORY FIRM OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING BULLETIN AWARDS 2015 The partners would like to express their appreciation and gratitude to all Nexia BT employees, Nexia International, clients DQGRWKHUDVVRFLDWHVZKRKDYHFRQWULEXWHGWRWKHğUPłVVXFFHVVWRGDWHDQGFXOPLQDWLQJLQWKLVDFKLHYHPHQW 7RJHWKHUDVRQHWHDPRXUHWKRVUHPDLQVŁ:HPDNHWKLQJVKDSSHQł7KLVLVRXUGLVWLQJXLVKLQJKDOOPDUNZKLFKGULYHVXV with renewed vigour and optimism to further realise the Nexia BT vision whilst retaining our commitment to the highest SURIHVVLRQDOVWDQGDUGVDQGZRUNDWWLWXGHWRDGGYDOXHWRRXUFOLHQWV ZZZQH[LDEWFRP 'Which is the real Budget?' PN leader asks Speaker Opposition demands Speaker's ruling after government tables wrong Budget document JURGEN BALZAN OPPOSITION leader Simon Bu- suttil yesterday asked Speaker of the House Anglu Farrugia to give a ruling after government tabled the wrong Budget docu- ment on Monday. "Which is the real Budget?" Busuttil asked Farrugia as he pointed out a number of dif- ferences between the Budget Document published by the gov- ernment on Monday and tabled in parliament and the Budget speech delivered by finance minister Edward Scicluna. Underlining the gravity of these discrepancies, Busuttil asked for an immediate ruling which Farrugia declined. Among the differences be- tween the working document and the speech, Busuttil cited the discrepancy between the al- lowance granted to Gozitan stu- dents which the document put at €800 while the finance minister put at €300 in his speech. But the Speaker said proceed- ings would go on as normal and he would be giving his ruling at a later stage. On his part, government whip Godfrey Farrugia said the gov- ernment had already explained in a statement that the Budget Document was published er- roneously and had been with- drawn. "The working document is no substitute to the Budget speech," Scicluna said, adding that the working document had been withdrawn and a new doc- ument was being printed. However, Busuttil insisted that two different documents had been tabled the document could not be withdrawn once it had been minuted. PN deputy leader Mario de Marco pointed out that govern- ment had not requested a cor- rection of the minutes before their approved and asked the Speaker to rule which document was the valid one. Busuttil is in 'panic mode' Reacting to Busuttil's inter- vention in Parliament, govern- ment said the PN leader was clutching at straws since he is at a loss in criticising the Budget. "After finding himself isolat- ed in negatively criticising the Budget. The opposition leader is clutching at an administra- tive mistake made when a docu- ment was erroneously uploaded and published." Busuttil should know, the government said, that the doc- ument was meant to be of an explanatory nature and was not part of the documents submit- ted to the House after being rubber stamped by the Presi- dent. PN leader Simon Busuttil asked which version of the Budget was valid after government withdrew a document erroneously tabled in parliament