"*Foreigners are also selling direct to retail*"

This is global business. Why would a company in Italy operate as if it has a physical presence in the Bahamas. This line of reasoning is nonsensical and would be called illegal double taxation. Customs duties takes care of this under our current tax structure, nobody is getting away with paying zero tax **unless** theres an illegal tax avoidance scam involving customs officers and that's a different conversation.

What's happening here is people complaining about a natural phenomenon with legitimate competition, as more people get in the market, the return business owners used to make when there were fewer dealers is reduced so you dont see the profit you used to. The solution is not to ask govt not to allow people to compete, the solution is to innovate.

"*compared the situation to the agreements struck with the likes of Facebook and Amazon to collect VAT on purchases and advertising by Bahamians.*"

Ridiculous, **so you pay VAT to Amazon, then Customs includes that in the cost of the item and calculates import duty on that then you have to pay VAT on the Customs duties plus cost**. Does that make sense in any other world but the one where a govt is creating elaborate schemes to artificially inflate taxes and call it *we reduced to 10% to help the poor* VAT?

"*These people in Japan or around the world are selling cars into our market and they’re not paying any Business Licence fees in selling direct to consumers here,” Mr Fox added.*"

Isnt this how everything works? When you order a fridge online the seller doesnt pay Bahamian VAT tax, they pay taxes due in their country. And thats how it should be. When the goods arrive here, the applicable import duties are added, there's no such thing as not paying VAT on imported cars, unless there's a scam with Customs Officers being complicit, that's a matter for the police, thats not an issue with *evil* Japanese cars, because likely cars arent the only things those crooked officers are scamming on, maybe facilitating illegal processing of cases of alcohol in the name of a deceased man for example.

Seriously? The airlines gave you this information when you first implemented the hikes. They demonstrated how your fees were far in excess of the industry average. In fact, this went through a court process **with the judge asking for a review of how these fees originated**. This is what 3 years later?

You raised the specter of our police being beyond criticism by the family. I simply pointed out to you how the police failed on several occasions that should have been *beyond failing* as the evidence and appropriate action stared them right in the face.

I recall that they tried to portray Natalee Holloway as a wild partying drunkard.

When your child goes missing please tell the police not to make a fuss.

"Intimating"

Or maybe she wants the thing most likely to have mementos of her child

**Did you miss the part where the family alerted the police to where the phone was? Nothing irks me more than when people take credit for work they didnt do. All along the police have been intimidating that they scoured the beach for hours and through crack investigative techniques found the phone. Now the story comes out, the family used the google locator app and gave the police the exact coordinates.**

Our police waited 4 months to charge an MP with rape and looked really hard for every opportunity not to do so. According to court documents from the now concluded case, our police somehow knew nothing about women being raped at Nygards compound even though multiple persons made complaints to them. Our police allowed Nygard to take his assets out the country, in spite of a court order, because the *gates were locked*. Our police allowed illegal gaming to proliferate for decades. Our police allowed Elliot Lockhart to walk around like a free man now Interpol has to put out a global embarrassing notice to ask them to do their job.

It is all well and good to have national pride, we all should, but let's not drink the mind numbing and eye covering koolaid

This is a human being that is missing. Someone gave birth to them. Someone grew up with them for years and loved them. There was no sticker on their forehead at birth that said "*undesirable*". They were loved by someone and that someone wants to know what happened to them. Anything else is irrelevant

"*welcome news” that Prime Minister Philip Davis KC, in addressing the House of Assembly yesterday, promised that the tax enforcers will “employ a better way” that is less heavy-handed*"

Where has the PM been for the past year. Apparently this has been going on for quite a while only coming to light when CBS released video footage of armed gunmen coming into their business demanding to see documents. Does the PM want us to believe someone could hijack the armed forces without him being aware? Was it a silent coup?