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Valuing Caribbean Banks in a Digital Age: The Dawgen CARI-VAL Bank™ Framework

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Banks are not just another sector in the Caribbean economy — they are the financial operating system for households, businesses and governments. They intermediate savings, provide FX, support trade, process payments and increasingly deliver digital financial services. So when a shareholder, regulator, board or potential investor asks: “What is this bank really worth?” …the answer...

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Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

November 29, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate tax is no longer just “25% on the slide in the board pack.” For capital-intensive and growing businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and LAC, the real tax cost of investment is driven by how quickly you can depreciate assets, how inventories are valued, whether you benefit from allowances for corporate equity (ACE), and...

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The Caribbean and LAC in the Global Corporate Tax Landscape: Strategy Lessons from OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025

November 29, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The OECD’s Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 is more than a technical publication. For businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), it’s effectively a global scoreboard: showing where our region sits on corporate tax rates, withholding taxes, treaty networks and BEPS implementation – and how that shapes investment and tax...

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Designing Competitive but Compliant IP and Incentive Regimes in Small Open Economies

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Small open economies – including many in the Caribbean – have long relied on tax incentives and preferential regimes to attract investment, especially in finance, technology, and other intangible-rich sectors. But the world has changed. The OECD/G20 BEPS project and the Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 reveal a landscape where intellectual property (IP) and tax incentives...

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Reading the CbCR Data: What Multinational Reporting Reveals About Profit Shifting and Tax Risk

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) has quietly become one of the most powerful transparency tools in international taxation. For large multinational enterprise (MNE) groups, it is no longer just a compliance obligation – it is a data set that tax authorities, policymakers and increasingly boards themselves use to assess where profits are booked, where activities happen, and...

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From BEPS to Pillar Two: How Anti-Avoidance Rules Are Reshaping Corporate Tax Planning

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

1. A New Era for Corporate Tax Strategy Over the past decade, the global tax landscape has shifted from rate competition to rule tightening. The OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project has rolled out a comprehensive set of anti-avoidance measures, and now Pillar Two’s global minimum tax is adding another powerful layer of...

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Incentivising Innovation: Are R&D Tax Incentives Worth the Complexity?

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Innovation is no longer optional. Whether you’re a regional bank building new digital channels, a manufacturer automating production, or a telecom operator investing in 5G and data platforms, research and development (R&D) and broader innovation spend increasingly sit at the heart of competitive advantage. The question for boards and CFOs is not just how much...

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Withholding Taxes, Treaties and Cash Repatriation: Designing Efficient Cross-Border Structures

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

When a group company in Jamaica pays a dividend to its foreign parent, or a subsidiary in Barbados pays interest on a loan, the tax story does not end with corporate income tax.A second layer of tax often appears at the border: withholding tax (WHT). For Caribbean and wider Latin America and the Caribbean...

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Beyond the Headline Rate: Using Effective Tax Rates to Drive Smarter Investment Decisions

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

For years, many boards and CFOs have judged tax competitiveness by one number:the statutory corporate income tax rate. But the OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 make one thing very clear: that single rate often tells you surprisingly little about the real tax cost of investment. Across jurisdictions, effective tax burdens can differ sharply from headline...

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End of the Race to the Bottom? Stabilising Corporate Tax Rates and the New Global Tax Order

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

For more than two decades, finance ministers and tax directors have lived with an assumption:corporate tax rates will keep trending down as jurisdictions compete for investment. The latest OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 suggest that moment has passed. Statutory corporate income tax (CIT) rates have stopped falling and are now broadly stable, even though they...

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Valuing Caribbean Banks in a Digital Age: The Dawgen CARI-VAL Bank™ Framework

Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

The Caribbean and LAC in the Global Corporate Tax Landscape: Strategy Lessons from OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025

Designing Competitive but Compliant IP and Incentive Regimes in Small Open Economies

From BEPS to Pillar Two: How Anti-Avoidance Rules Are Reshaping Corporate Tax Planning

Incentivising Innovation: Are R&D Tax Incentives Worth the Complexity?

Withholding Taxes, Treaties and Cash Repatriation: Designing Efficient Cross-Border Structures

Beyond the Headline Rate: Using Effective Tax Rates to Drive Smarter Investment Decisions

End of the Race to the Bottom? Stabilising Corporate Tax Rates and the New Global Tax Order

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