I literally had the same thought, "*this is a mess*". A 33yr old working part time at McDonalds dating a man who's charged with murder, been warned "*by God*" multiple times and has to go to a friend to get gas money for an economy car.

And no I'm not ghettoizing them, I'm talking about the scenario likely being more common than not. The solution to this *mess* is to transplant the people at risk, show them that they are worth more than their environment tells them they are. But how do you transplant 75% of the population?

We need education and the stranglehold on the economy by the corrupt cocaine and gun smuggling *high ranking politician* to be released so that the education actually does what it's supposed to do, i.e., allow people to rise exponentially not neing subject to the whims of their MP or a political connection and increase the intellectual capacity of senior management.

"*import a car into this country, you have to go though a broker/. Why?*"

This was beyond odd. I could see if I opted to go through a broker because I didnt want the hassle. But then again I dont know what the import process is world round, maybe the broker is specially trained to do something a person with a working brain cant.

"*God has warned him too many times.”*"

How many times had God warned him??

The thing that all these plans about increased revenue seem to forget is said *high ranking politician* likely has a cohort of *high ranking* colleagues who have a stranglehold on the economy and exact a personal tax through corrupt practices. If they are baseless and soulless enough to deal cocaine, they are also likely exacting taxes from human smuggling, sex trafficking and forged document dealing to illegal migrants that's why the problem cant get fix. Not to mention million dollar kickbacks for awarding contracts to the right persons. By the time the amount sucked out of the economy by this treasonous cabal of vampires is added up, it will double any gains in taxes taken in, leaving the public at large stratching their heads wondering *where the VAT money gone?*

"*“That partner said the same discussion in Canada, the length of time to get that permit will be years, not months. We are drafting a contract with ‘Partner A’ that gives so many months to get the permit and the parties see that as reasonable....What would be reasonable to get a permit in The Bahamas is defined in weeks and months, whereas in Canada it’s defined in months and years. This is no simple matter.”*"

This could be good or bad, depending on how big is the risk involved in the business concern.

If its say a firm digging for oil, the comparison of "*Bahamas great*" because it takes months vs "*Canada bad*" because it takes years to vet the company, its business practices personnel and equipment could be a very bad sign and more like "*Bahamas, lamb to the slaughter*"

But I agree generally, all of our administrations make grand announcements **with unrealistic deadlines** without understand the first thing about what the actual work entails. This administration appears to be especially prone to do this... actually Minnis was seat of the pants too..

I have the feeling that what we call impediments to business ease are largely law makers creating laws to make their private business services mandated by law. *Pinglingisms*, laws that make no sense any place else in the world but the Bahamas where it benefits **the** political power broker. A lawyer must do this, an accountant must do that etc. If the lawmaker then has to ease business processes, it will be very hard to take money from his own pocket.

They forgot to mention that it was his fellow police officers who fell on him.

VAT is generally targeted at manufacturing where different segments of the market take an input and transform it to make it more valuable. What the govt did here as we have no large scale manufacturing sector was basically a money grab.

Wait, I just really read what you said, I hope you're being sarcastic when you say "*customs duty adds value to the product*".

When a "Value Added Tax" references *value*, it is **not** talking about the dollar "*cost*" of the item.

It is saying, when this thing left your hands it left **with more intrinsic value** to the customer than when it entered your hands. *Delivering* a product or inspecting a product adds nothing to the *value* of the product. But adding a finish to a natural wood table adds value to the table.

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