The private sector will suffer while the public sector get to keep wearing the emperor's new clothes.

Easy to tell other people what to do with their wallet. There will no doubt be a slow down in economic activity after July 1st. This combined with the already slow season in September and October due to minimal tourist business will lead any prudent business person to be cautious and cut back more than normal. Most businesses that keep employees on during this time are just subsidizing their workers. For my business l am planning a 15 percent decrease in sales below normal in September and October. So the private sector worker suffers while the public service go on as normal wearing the emperor's new clothes.

If VAT increase was not bad enough. This is just insane.

Yeah new police cars. That will definitely reduce crime. VAT 18% here we come in 2 years. Tax and spend. What a waste

Yep anything that Bahamians own is on the table. All they worry about is tourism and financial services which are mostly foreign owned industries.

Easier to destroy what through propoganda you can make seem insignificant.

This is one of the most ill thought out parts of the new budget.

I was Hubert that bragged when he was last Prime Minister that the Bahamas and China were the only two countries in the world to not downsize their civil service during the recession that began in 2008. So now here we are.

This is just smoke and mirrors. What happens when BEC can't net off their vat expenses and have to raise their base rates/fuel surcharge? We'll be right back to square one.

This is a big blow to business that need to buy physical locations to operate. This will kill businesses. This part of the budget is worse than the vat increase and a total backtracking by the government even though it was done under the previous one.