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CRS and FATCA Compliance: What Caribbean Financial Institutions and Account Holders Must Know

April 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The End of Financial Privacy as a Tax Planning Tool For decades, offshore financial accounts served a dual purpose for many Caribbean and international investors: a store of wealth beyond the reach of domestic tax authorities, and a mechanism for sheltering investment returns from the income tax obligations that would apply if those returns were...

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Financial Services Taxation: Sector-Specific Tax Obligations for Banks, Insurance Companies, Credit Unions, and Securities Dealers

April 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Financial Services Taxation Requires Specialist Expertise The taxation of financial institutions in Jamaica and across the Caribbean is more complex, more consequential, and more frequently mismanaged than the taxation of any other sector. The financial services sector encompasses institutions with vastly different tax profiles — commercial banks subject to the higher 33.33% CIT...

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Property Tax and Stamp Duty: What Every Property Owner, Developer, and Investor Must Know

April 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Tax Dimension of Every Property Decision Land is one of the most significant assets in the Caribbean economy. From the family home to the commercial plaza, from the agricultural smallholding to the large industrial facility, from the hotel resort to the residential development — property ownership and property transactions carry a tax dimension that...

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Tax Treaties and Cross-Border Structuring: Navigating Jamaica’s Treaty Network and Avoiding Double Taxation

April 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Treaty as a Tax Planning Tool and Compliance Obligation Double taxation — the imposition of tax on the same income by two different jurisdictions — is one of the most significant barriers to cross-border investment. A Jamaican company that receives dividends from a UK subsidiary faces potential taxation in both the UK (as...

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Transfer Pricing and BEPS: What Every Caribbean Group Must Know About Cross-Border Tax

April 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The International Dimension of Caribbean Tax For Caribbean businesses with operations in a single domestic market — a Jamaican retailer selling to Jamaican customers, a Barbadian service provider with no overseas operations — transfer pricing and the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) framework may appear to be remote concerns. But for the...

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Payroll and Statutory Deductions: PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART — Every Employer’s Complete Compliance Guide

April 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Payroll Obligation Every Employer Carries The moment a Jamaican business hires its first employee, it assumes a comprehensive set of statutory obligations that must be met every month for the entire duration of that employment relationship. These obligations extend far beyond the payment of wages — they encompass the accurate calculation, deduction, and remittance...

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Personal Income Tax: Obligations for Employees, Self-Employed Professionals, and Rental Income Earners

April 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every Individual Is a Taxpayer Personal income tax is the tax that touches the widest range of Caribbean individuals — from the salaried employee whose employer handles deductions automatically, to the self-employed professional managing their own compliance, to the property investor navigating the rules on rental income, to the senior executive with multiple income streams...

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GCT / VAT Compliance: Registration, Input Tax Credits, and Avoiding the Most Costly Mistakes

April 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Tax That Touches Every Transaction Of all the taxes in Jamaica’s fiscal framework, the General Consumption Tax is the one that most Caribbean businesses encounter most frequently — in every sale they make, in every purchase they process, in every invoice they issue, and in every return they file. GCT is a tax...

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Corporate Income Tax: Rates, Deductions, and Compliance Strategy for Caribbean Companies

April 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Tax That Matters Most to Your Bottom Line Of all the taxes that a Caribbean company must manage, none has a more direct and material impact on profitability than the corporate income tax. Corporate income tax (CIT) — charged on the chargeable income of every company resident in Jamaica and on the Jamaica-source income...

The Caribbean Tax Landscape: Understanding the Framework Every Business Operates Within

April 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tax Is the Price of Operating in the Caribbean Every business that operates in the Caribbean — whether a sole trader in Kingston, a family-owned manufacturing enterprise in Trinidad, a regional conglomerate spanning twelve territories, or a multinational with Caribbean subsidiaries — operates within a tax environment that shapes every significant financial decision it...

CRS and FATCA Compliance: What Caribbean Financial Institutions and Account Holders Must Know

Financial Services Taxation: Sector-Specific Tax Obligations for Banks, Insurance Companies, Credit Unions, and Securities Dealers

Tax Treaties and Cross-Border Structuring: Navigating Jamaica’s Treaty Network and Avoiding Double Taxation

Payroll and Statutory Deductions: PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART — Every Employer’s Complete Compliance Guide

Personal Income Tax: Obligations for Employees, Self-Employed Professionals, and Rental Income Earners

GCT / VAT Compliance: Registration, Input Tax Credits, and Avoiding the Most Costly Mistakes

Corporate Income Tax: Rates, Deductions, and Compliance Strategy for Caribbean Companies

The Caribbean Tax Landscape: Understanding the Framework Every Business Operates Within

April 24, 2026Data Sovereignty: Where does our data go, and how do we answer that question defensibly?

April 24, 2026The Productivity Economics of AI: What the Return Actually Looks Like for a Caribbean SME

April 24, 2026Beyond the Hype: What AI Agents Actually Do in an Enterprise

April 23, 2026The Caribbean AI Adoption Imperative: Why Caribbean Businesses Cannot Sit This One Out

April 20, 2026Post-Merger Integration Case Study: How a Caribbean Insurance Group Planned Day 1, One Hundred Days and Year-One Value Realization

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