Sounds like any retailers who were vocal against new taxation prior to the initiation of VAT are being targeted.

Pretty much...yup!

It doesn't make sense to you because you are an idiot...all the paperwork and the pricing is handled by the head office, you don't send a bundle of paperwork outlining all the customs and duty entries out with each item to your chain stores, if you want to check on the costing and pricing of an item go down to the damn head office you embicile.

This is just the beginning....Government will soon start prosecuting businesses that their cronies have envied for years, and make it impossible to do business under the new tax regime. Then, surprise, surprise, a buyer will be found for the business who just so happens to be a crony. It sounds just like Robert Mugabe and his farm grabs, or a certain supermarket chain in days gone bye

Seems mr. Bowe needs to read up on his guiding legislation, which clearly outlines the procedures to be followed, which do not include mountains of paperwork stacked in all retail outlets.
The law requires the information to be furnished at the request of.....
But yes, persecution is indeed the program here, a total abandonment of the rule of law and the proper proceedures,
How does one say Ton Ton Mcoute in English.........

i visited solomon's supercenter this afternoon

the beef liver in the frozen isle was not priced so i did not put it in my cart.

then i looked for hal anf half in the dairy isle. there were three brands, only the highest priced of them had a bin tag. i complained to one employee who said the scanner was available, fair enough, he told me he had to reboot the scanner. and i stood there for 8 minutes waiting for the reboot that never happened. This scanner was next to the employee door with no clear marking of what it was and there was no instruction on how to 'reboot' the thing that had several inmarked push buttons.

i dragged all the items to the cashier and told the cashier i needed all those scanned for the price before i decided to buy them. i hope the manager who had to come and delete the items i elected not to buy was sufficiently incovenienced. From now on i will put all unmarked items in my cart and waste their time again.

why dont these people visit solomon's supercenter, where the prices are mostly higher than super value?

E j bowe sounds like a jackass. Like a ferocious Pitt bull on a strong leash. More bark than If he really wanted to get the information he sought he could go to either Super Value's head office or get it from customs: but let E J Bowe prove he is not a lackey (and puppet old one at that) and do something about this 1. Why are Bahamian consumers paying a surcharge on their B E C bills when this amount should now be a negative amount deducted from their electricity bill since the cost of fuel dropped below $60 a barrel? (2). Not only is customs charging VAT on the duty they charge but persons who were unable to clear their shipments before December 31 have been charged the old duty rate PLzuS VAT! For example the duty on fridges and stoves dropped from 25% to 5% on January 1st. But customs told importers that if their shipment arrived before january 1 but they did not clear it they will have to pay the old rate of 25% plus vat or 32.5% as opposed to 12.5% under the new tariff rates. So how can you tell consumers to expect to see lower prices on these items when some importers had to pay and additional 7.5% on the old rate?

it is not 25% plus 7.5 % to give 32.5%, the rate is compunded.

$100 + 25% duty = 125%

Now vat that total: $125 + 7.5% = 134.38

so in fact 34.5% instead of 32.5%.

Don't mind the government telling you that VAT is only 7.5% the way they are calculating it is will be much more on some items. So retailers will have to adjust their prices upwards to compensate or find themselves unable to pay their bills in a matter of months. what is bankruptcy?

Maybe they should send this Bowe character to collect all the unpaid RPTs? Yes, no?

I bet this government has to get loans from the number boyz to be able to pay the refund to the VAT businesses. And this is the direct response of the business to people such as Gibson and DPM pushing for higher minimum wage. The real world works like that: 1. first prices go up, and 2. only then the salaries. Everything else is Cuban-style communism.