One of the most useless Govt entities that contributes greatly to the expense of every day life in this country. One day they will go to far in increasing their costs due to their incredible bad management, and then it will be too late.
They need to have a full in depth study about the impact of income tax, and be honest about it. One of the benefits to taxes such as VAT is that we get the 5-7 million tourists to contribute which would not happen if we had income tax only. Are there enough people earning enough that an income tax would make up that spend and then some. Until i see the analysis it would be hard to say which one would benefit the most Bahamians.
So we can expect more road blocks as this seems to be their main plan for fighting crime, which has been so successful. If we just did a bit of intelligent policing we could go a lot further. But i doubt it. I expect more videos of the police out in force to make people think they have it under control.
Agreed most of our cruise visitors are on the 3 day cruises which are all inclusive so people don't spend. When you are on a 7 day cruise you want to get off the ship etc.
We are a joke nation. Can't even fix a one mile stretch of road in this length of time. And to make it worse, you know within two months of them opening it they WSC or BTC or some other will be digging it up again.
Yet again Govt getting the private sector to do their work. At least get rid of many of those civil servants who don't seem capable of noticing if a building has not paid real property tax (i know they are easy to hide, so it could be hard). Why do they always make it easier to just not follow the law then crack down on those who are breaking the law.
Dawes says...
One of the most useless Govt entities that contributes greatly to the expense of every day life in this country. One day they will go to far in increasing their costs due to their incredible bad management, and then it will be too late.
On ‘Sooner the better’ over BPL base rate increase
Posted 12 January 2023, 1:15 p.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
They need to have a full in depth study about the impact of income tax, and be honest about it. One of the benefits to taxes such as VAT is that we get the 5-7 million tourists to contribute which would not happen if we had income tax only. Are there enough people earning enough that an income tax would make up that spend and then some. Until i see the analysis it would be hard to say which one would benefit the most Bahamians.
On Davis taxation
Posted 11 January 2023, 9:05 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
So we can expect more road blocks as this seems to be their main plan for fighting crime, which has been so successful. If we just did a bit of intelligent policing we could go a lot further. But i doubt it. I expect more videos of the police out in force to make people think they have it under control.
On PM: We’ll give more resources to crime fight
Posted 9 January 2023, 9:18 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
Agreed most of our cruise visitors are on the 3 day cruises which are all inclusive so people don't spend. When you are on a 7 day cruise you want to get off the ship etc.
On ‘$400m opportunity’ to double cruise spend
Posted 6 January 2023, 9:04 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
What did we promise to do in order to keep those jobs. I am not saying it wasn't worth it, but we should at least know.
On PM's 'swift intervention' reverses decision to lay off 20 Bahamian workers at Freeport Container Port
Posted 6 January 2023, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
We are a joke nation. Can't even fix a one mile stretch of road in this length of time. And to make it worse, you know within two months of them opening it they WSC or BTC or some other will be digging it up again.
On ‘Village road is safe’ - despite car plunge
Posted 5 January 2023, 8:45 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
This is basically the definition of a banana republic
On Gov’t pledges law change over its $233m borrowing
Posted 5 January 2023, 8:41 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
Yet again Govt getting the private sector to do their work. At least get rid of many of those civil servants who don't seem capable of noticing if a building has not paid real property tax (i know they are easy to hide, so it could be hard). Why do they always make it easier to just not follow the law then crack down on those who are breaking the law.
On Tax crackdown threat for Business Licence renewal
Posted 4 January 2023, 1:46 p.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
You know they all fought over who could escort him. Knowling the media around the world would have them on their front pages.
On FTX founder extradited
Posted 22 December 2022, 9:20 a.m. Suggest removal
Dawes says...
And the people who owe us the taxpayers money are still making great money off us the taxpayers. This is why nothing will change here as we don't care
On ‘Lots of muscle’ required for $142m toxic BOB pile
Posted 21 December 2022, 11:48 a.m. Suggest removal