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.

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.

Makes perfect sense, now businesses can tote around thousands of dollars in cash to make payments that currently checks are used for that cannot be paid by other means. If people are not really using checks what is the drive/motive to eliminate them? Not everywhere takes credit cards including the government in many instances. The government itself pays most merchants with check.

I can walk into a US bank and have an account open in less than 30 min. In my own country I have to bring a suitcase full of documents and letters and wait days or weeks to get an account open. A business account getting opened is almost a joke only a masochist could enjoy opening a business account in The Bahamas.

NIB is nothing more than a tax

Go live in North Korea if you want to live in a police state.

The site is a disaster. 10 min just circling to go from one page to the next if you can get on and if the next page even loads properly and you do not have to spend 10 min to go back to try and load it again.. No email confirmations of anything that has been done. It is non intuitive. The credit card payment does not work. No instructions as to what has to be done with the actual and estimated filings. Any decent programmer or software company should have been able to fix the issues before the months end. They knew it had problems from the first week.

Anywhere else in the world and someone would be fired or forced to resign over this fiasco.

The new BL is a disaster, no explanations, no instructions, the site is one glitchy mess. They should have randomly selected say 100 bossiness to use the new system this year to work out the bugs. It is is insane and they want to stick to their deadlines for filings etc.