Just shut NIB down. It has become a income tax and a scam. Giver everyone a one time couple dollars based on what they paid so far. I will forgo most of what I have contributed the last 20 years if they just end it. Please this has to stop! What % is enough? Maybe 110% will be enough to keep it going.
Right now I am pretty far from town and I am having to pay close to 5,000 dollars a year for shoddy internet so I can try and function in the online world we live in today. It is extorsion since I only have once choice. Starlink here I come.
It would be cheaper to pay them to stay home. Less office space, less government waste and theft, and less people getting in your way when you need something do. They work harder at trying not to work than if they actually did something.
Money is safer in a rock hole these days than in the loan shark banks who pay no interest, really do not give loans, and nickel and dime your money to death with fees.
Money is safer in a rock hole these days than in the loan shark banks who pay no interest, really do not give loans, and nickel and dime your money to death with fees.
While your premise is fine. The other side of the coin is the government needs to stop pandering and encouraging people to enter into such businesses if they are only going to pull the rug from under them. They promise the world and want local production but, no real leg work is put into place for them to thrive. While the imported windows will now be imported cheaper with no extra burden on the importer I am sure the local manufacturer faces a hurdle of bureaucratic and regulatory hoops to jump through to bring in his raw material duty free. This adds to the cost of his local production. Why are finished good duty rates being dropped and local producers raw materials still facing 30-45% duty on their raw materials and having to go through all kinds of B.S. and expense to get the concession? Drop the rates on raw materials and get rid of the concessions all together. Make everyone's life easy.
700 million unpaid fees, 700 million unpaid property tax. Seems like we need to play those numbers. It is just gross that the government treats me like a common criminal when I pay all my taxes and they want to extract more out of the people who actually pay and keep letting the slackers off. Not only do they want to get more money out of the complaint people they actually get in your way and make it harder and hard to conduct business and pay them taxes that are due. The Bahamas is not a real place.
I do allot of wire transfer payments to vendors but, every now and then be it the bank or for some reason, glitch, or whatever the payments will not go through and I have had to resort to check. This includes our new illustrious business license who credit card system does not work and the bill payment online via the bank would not work. If these people want to go cash and checkless then they really need to do major upgrades to digital/online payment systems. We are in the dark ages compared to other places for easy of transactons.
bcitizen says...
Time to buy some of Elon's robots. What business is going to take on this liability?
On Sears unveils plan for NIB rate increase
Posted 9 March 2024, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Just shut NIB down. It has become a income tax and a scam. Giver everyone a one time couple dollars based on what they paid so far. I will forgo most of what I have contributed the last 20 years if they just end it. Please this has to stop! What % is enough? Maybe 110% will be enough to keep it going.
On GOVT SEEKS TO EASE FEARS OF 26.3% NIB: PM’s Office responds to concerns contributions ‘like income tax’ by 2044
Posted 8 March 2024, 1:10 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Right now I am pretty far from town and I am having to pay close to 5,000 dollars a year for shoddy internet so I can try and function in the online world we live in today. It is extorsion since I only have once choice. Starlink here I come.
On URCA fears on price in communications market
Posted 1 March 2024, 6:58 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
It would be cheaper to pay them to stay home. Less office space, less government waste and theft, and less people getting in your way when you need something do. They work harder at trying not to work than if they actually did something.
On Gov’t eyes $140m ‘accrual’ over corporate income tax
Posted 23 February 2024, 7:28 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Money is safer in a rock hole these days than in the loan shark banks who pay no interest, really do not give loans, and nickel and dime your money to death with fees.
On EU blacklist escape key to ‘new world order survival’
Posted 21 February 2024, 11:44 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Money is safer in a rock hole these days than in the loan shark banks who pay no interest, really do not give loans, and nickel and dime your money to death with fees.
On EU blacklist escape key to ‘new world order survival’
Posted 21 February 2024, 11:44 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
While your premise is fine. The other side of the coin is the government needs to stop pandering and encouraging people to enter into such businesses if they are only going to pull the rug from under them. They promise the world and want local production but, no real leg work is put into place for them to thrive. While the imported windows will now be imported cheaper with no extra burden on the importer I am sure the local manufacturer faces a hurdle of bureaucratic and regulatory hoops to jump through to bring in his raw material duty free. This adds to the cost of his local production. Why are finished good duty rates being dropped and local producers raw materials still facing 30-45% duty on their raw materials and having to go through all kinds of B.S. and expense to get the concession? Drop the rates on raw materials and get rid of the concessions all together. Make everyone's life easy.
On ‘Kicked out of the ball park’: Duty end’s 40% hit for window maker
Posted 16 February 2024, 8:44 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Bahamians will soon need to go back to using gold and silver for money and just create old style banks with vaults to hold it in.
On North Andros forced to ‘pilot banking’ as ABM vandalised
Posted 15 February 2024, 9:57 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
700 million unpaid fees, 700 million unpaid property tax. Seems like we need to play those numbers. It is just gross that the government treats me like a common criminal when I pay all my taxes and they want to extract more out of the people who actually pay and keep letting the slackers off. Not only do they want to get more money out of the complaint people they actually get in your way and make it harder and hard to conduct business and pay them taxes that are due. The Bahamas is not a real place.
On ‘Not worth’ pursuing after $700m unpaid PMH fees
Posted 15 February 2024, 8:32 a.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
I do allot of wire transfer payments to vendors but, every now and then be it the bank or for some reason, glitch, or whatever the payments will not go through and I have had to resort to check. This includes our new illustrious business license who credit card system does not work and the bill payment online via the bank would not work. If these people want to go cash and checkless then they really need to do major upgrades to digital/online payment systems. We are in the dark ages compared to other places for easy of transactons.
On Two-thirds say Bahamas can end cheques by ‘26
Posted 14 February 2024, 8:59 a.m. Suggest removal