there is not too much duty to slash on food. meats and fresh fruits are already duty free.

they just add more items one by one.

Rupert roberst should use his opaper plants to make brown paper bags for his customers to carry groceries.

do the merchants pay business licence fee on VAT?

that is a double whammy.

the prices onthe family islands will always be higher than nassau because of extra transportation, lower volume imports and less competition.

right now in abaco, following a year where the largest supermarket has just hogged and hogged, the cheaper competitor is significantly expanding the store because of increased sales.

> “It’s got so bad that, going home one
> night a few weeks ago, there were four
> used cars coming off the Arawak Cay
> port with four expatriate guys,
> Pakistanis and Indians, driving,” he
> disclosed. “You’ve got expatriates in
> here on work permits bringing in cars,
> and selling them at the side of the
> road.”

i guess a little xenophobic fallacy' might you some sympathy.

how could you tell someone's nationality when they were driving in the night?
how did you know they were on work permits.
in fact, many of these fireigners have become citizens or permanent residents.

But you need to drive more, you might just find a bunch of chinese selling cigarettes.

it was this way all the way back to 2012

> They pay no Business License, no NIB,
> no VAT and no property tax.

actually, they do pay VAT, when they import the vehicle they pay VAT on the import value and on the duty. They just do not get VAT credit and presumably mark all of that up to their customers.

As to the rest, Business License, NIB and property tax, you do not know whether they pay or not.

> He said the BMDA had recommended to
> the Government that it introduce a
> system where Bahamians needed to pay
> for, and obtain, a license to import a
> vehicle. Drivers licenses and NIB
> smart cards would be used to verify
> identities, and persons limited to
> importing one vehicle per year.

Let us do that with clothes and shoes too to protect the apparel merchants. Require a license for each package that you pick up from the courier.

one pair of shoes a year, one pair of pants a years, one shirt a year.

lol lol

If you think government is bureaucratic, you have not met this guy. lol.

i applied online.
to my surprise, they asiigned me to a priavte doctor.

i called the doctor as he is not my doctor of record and they said that, i can come in when i need the services of a doctor.

i feel guilty going there if this guy is not going to get paid, and before i receive any services i will ask if i have to pay anyway.

if that is the case, i will go to my regular doctor.

you forgot the 85k per year paid to past governor generals and their surviving spouses there are quite a few of them if anyone cares to count.

it will take a while to clean up.

for every chicken she has a pot?