Although they rejected ministerial plans for huge duty rises, the rest of the Budget went through with barely a ripple of dissent.
Plans to extend stamp duty to share transfer properties and set up a vehicle emissions duty on cars arriving in the Island were passed with little debate after amendments for an annual road tax and doubled company registration fees were heavily rejected.
But the plans leave a £64m deficit for next year which Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf says will be filled by unprecedented efforts to reduce spending and a review of all States taxes and charges in the new year.
