The "1829" constituents St Barnabas voting in Comrade "Red Shirt" Shanendon as their House MP - might be thinking before jumping congratulate PM's agreeing 12% VAT, it would've been much more productive had their own MP, asked PM Minnis to reveal his prime ministerial delegations Travel bill since 10th May 2017...... Rumour has it costing PeoplesPublic purse $500,000... And who owns private aircraft's red shirts politicians ans government officials been flying aboard, for Free? The "1829" constituents, cannot afford a 12% VAT, sprungs on them by their MP.

Mr: Cartwright this will be your first and last time in the house. you have no political
future, How can you agree to increase taxes on the poor people who voted for you. and call
the name of God. the poor people will suffer. but again this is what they voted for.

"The value-added effect is achieved by prohibiting end-consumers from recovering VAT on purchases, but permitting businesses to do so. The VAT collected by the state is computed as the difference between the VAT of sales earnings and the VAT of those goods and services upon which the product depends. The difference is the tax due to the value added by the business. In this way, the total tax levied at each stage in the economic chain of supply is a constant fraction."

If Government did not credit back the tax paid out by the big business tax collectors, perhaps they would have sufficient to run the country without the increase. If big business felt the effect of the tax, many would be less lackadaisical towards the increase. This way it would not just adversely affect the working class and the powers that be might think twice about biting the hands that feeds them!

By rebating the VAT to business it stops big business from cheating on custom duties ,,if the pay and bribe to under value shipments they get lees vat return

Not unexpectedly, Cartwright has it all wrong. Cabinet made the easy decision of imposing more crippling taxes rather than the hard decision of imposing materially significant austerity measures.

No research could possibly uncover any Comrade PeoplePublic anywhere on globe who have so quickly turned thumps down on the very political party they had only voted in mere 365 plus few days back. MP Shanendon's "1829" constituents, fall well within the common factors of 91,409 you will keep hearing me post about. The 1829" constituents are to become his political future nightmare.... And so should other 34 red MP's, be constituents alarmed. There is a real growing danger, if the 91,409 constituents are preparing revolt by putting on their Protest boots. Remember, even Papa Hubert's security detail had surround him escort Comrade PM for the short dash back his policeman's chauffeured car, parked but mere feet away from front door House of Assembly.

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Most of the infrastructural upgrades such as airports, ports, major roadways, telecommunications and internet services are mostly to support the tourism industry. This industry is suitor generate sufficient revenue for the government to constantly upgrade these systems and maintain them. But unfortunately, government continues to ignorantly exclude this sector from its equal share of taxes. So the taxes that are collected from Bahamians that should go for roads and schools and hospitals go towards these projects. And when a foreign tourist comes here and lays up in a suite in Atlantis, or gambles in the casinos that Bahamians are banned from gambling, or even laying out on the pink sand beaches in Harbor Island, working Bahamians are helping to pay for that vacation. How long will we be the tail and not the head?

every time a visitor eats food that duty has been paid on he is paying our taxes ,,plus vat is on their hotel room ,,meals etc etc

12% bc I love you. What an abusive boyfriend.

Will we then be reducing it again one whatever is met?

I am so tired of this and don,t understand why people don,t get it .For 35 years we have been borrowing to afford a grossly overstaffed civil service and massive corruption .It was estimated w all the crooked business people and corrupt customs officers we were only collected forty percent of duty /tax/ ..We have 1 in 4 people working for government ,,geez Bahamasair have over 100 per plane when the industry average is 23 per plane .Unless you want to send half the civil service home and see misery ,crime and mayhem sky rocket ,,IT IS TIME TO PAY THE PIPR ,,

The Minister of the Public Service said that 40% of the Government employees were not P&P (not eligible for a retirement pension) ..... but the Government has $1 Billion+ per year retirement pension bill now ....... So, who is collecting all of this pension?? ......... How much pension (total) are Pindling, Ingraham and Perry collecting each year????? ....... and all those old PLP and FNM crooked Ministers, MPs, Senators, and GGs who helped to ruin our country today???? ........ How much is the top 5% of senior civil service retirees collecting in pension as opposed to the "grunts"?????? ......................... and some of them collecting 3 or 4 pensions (each) and still coming back to serve as "consultants" ........ Then we wonder why we are paying 12% VAT and have a $8 Billion national debt???????????