If government is going to play hard ball on VAT collections then it MUST get its own house in order and ensure that VAT refunds are dealt with on time. The likely problem is that you have a VAT office managed by fired up, over officious bureaucrats who are on a power trip. If government wants to be really efficient then why not impress the people (who voted them in remember!) by imposing similar fines for outstanding Property Taxes. Why the different treatment of two important tax revenue streams?

Only Hubert Ingraham has the respect, experience and skill to save the FNM and the country from the evil clutches of the PLP. Why should he come back to serve an ungrateful electorate that rejected him TWICE however?

Cost to the tax payer?

PLP = a party of evil doers, a people devoid of conscience.

Junkanoo Carnival - just what the country needs. Bahamas, the land of sun, sea and stupid government.

Don't hold your breath islandgirl. There is one rule for the political elite and another for ordinary Joe.

If government is going to be so strict on VAT payments then why does it not take the same approach with unpaid Property Taxes? Oh wait, that would upset too many PLP friends and family that are thousands in arrears!

Fitzgerald wears a fancy suit and along with the other PLP "made men" believes he is untouchable. Observe his arrogance.

The FNM has a death wish. What else is there to conclude?

Mr Fitzgerald said there is no evidence his decision to disclose people’s private emails and financial information will worry potential investors.

Common sense would suggest that Fitzgerald's disclosures WILL have an adverse effect on the perception of The Bahamas as a place where business affairs can be conducted in privacy. In his arrogance, however, he is prepared to run the risk. We can only hope that the good people of Marathon kick this joker into touch next May. With his disgraceful neglect of their interests over the Rubis affair, and now this, they will surely take their revenge at the ballot boxes?