Retailers and manufacturers now buy software, advertising and cloud capacity from abroad and sell through websites, marketplaces and chat apps. Digital tax reaches both sides of that ledger, and the...
Digital tax compliance is won or lost in the data captured at checkout and in accounts payable. Caribbean businesses that cannot reproduce the tax treatment of a single transaction are...
Yes, and in three different ways. A Caribbean software or services firm selling into neighbouring islands and Latin America can owe consumption tax, income tax or a special digital levy...
One foreign software invoice can carry two Jamaican taxes at once: withholding on the payment and General Consumption Tax on the import. Which applies, and at what rate, turns on...
Canada enacted a digital services tax, reached back two years to collect it, then repealed it and refunded the money with interest. The episode is a lesson in legislative risk,...
A 2 or 3 per cent tax on revenue sounds modest until it is set against margin. Digital services taxes are expensive for thin-margin businesses, politically costly for the countries...
Marketplaces, booking sites and delivery apps now stand between Caribbean sellers and their customers. The law increasingly decides who collects the tax by who controls the transaction, not by who...
Consumption tax on digital services follows the customer, not the supplier. For Caribbean firms selling across the islands, that principle turns on three practical questions: is the customer a business,...
Most Jamaican businesses already pay GCT on imported services through the reverse charge. The Budget measure is aimed at households and unregistered buyers, and its design will decide whether registered...
Jamaica’s Budget, Grenada’s new law and years of quiet collection in Barbados and The Bahamas mean digital tax is no longer a foreign debate. It is a Caribbean compliance question,...
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