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General Insurance Contracts and the PAA — Simplicity with Tax Complexity

July 7, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

For many general insurance companies, the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) under IFRS 17 offers a simplified framework for measuring liabilities and recognizing revenue. It’s especially attractive for short-duration contracts like auto, property, liability, and accident policies. However, simplification in accounting doesn’t necessarily translate to simplification in tax. In Jamaica, the TAJ Technical Advisory on IFRS...

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Life Assurance under IFRS 17 — A New Tax Narrative for Policyholder Protection

July 7, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Life assurance companies operate under long-term, complex contractual obligations that require precise actuarial forecasts and careful financial planning. With the introduction of IFRS 17, the landscape for life insurers in Jamaica has fundamentally changed—impacting not just how revenue and profits are recognized, but also how tax liabilities are calculated and reported. To support a smooth...

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Tax Risk Management: Building Confidence Through Compliance

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tax Risk Is Business Risk In today’s complex and fast-changing regulatory environment, tax risk is more than a finance issue—it’s a strategic business concern. Errors, omissions, or delays in tax compliance can trigger audits, penalties, reputational harm, and strained relationships with regulators. Caribbean companies are increasingly expected to demonstrate transparency, accuracy, and proactive governance in...

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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC): Integrating Oversight for Better Decision-Making

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Silos Are Risky—Integration Is Smart Caribbean businesses today operate in a challenging landscape—heightened regulatory requirements, fast-moving digital threats, environmental concerns, and growing stakeholder scrutiny. Yet too often, governance, risk management, and compliance functions operate in silos—creating duplication, blind spots, and strategic disconnects. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is a framework for integrating oversight, breaking down...

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Internal Controls That Work: Safeguarding Assets and Enhancing Accountability

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Real Value of Internal Controls In a fast-paced business environment marked by evolving risks, regulatory scrutiny, and financial pressure, internal controls are not just about compliance—they are about confidence. A robust internal control system is your organization’s first line of defense against fraud, error, inefficiency, and reputational risk. But effective controls go beyond ticking...

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Enterprise Risk Management: Building Resilience in Uncertain Times

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Risk Is the New Normal Global uncertainty—economic shocks, cyber threats, climate change, supply chain disruption, and regulatory upheaval—has transformed risk from an occasional boardroom discussion into a daily leadership imperative. Organizations across the Caribbean must now ask: “How prepared are we for what’s next?” At Dawgen Global, we believe Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is no...

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Beyond the Deadline: Why Tax Filing Is Just the Beginning of Good Compliance

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tax Filing Isn’t the Finish Line—It’s the Starting Point For many businesses, tax filing is treated as a once-a-year administrative task: gather the receipts, prepare the forms, submit, and move on. But in today’s regulatory environment—especially in Jamaica and across the Caribbean—filing your tax return is only one part of a much larger compliance responsibility....

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Navigating Jamaica’s GCT: 7 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

GCT Compliance Is More Complex Than You Think Jamaica’s General Consumption Tax (GCT) regime is a key component of the tax landscape. While it functions like a standard value-added tax (VAT), it comes with unique rules, exemptions, and compliance requirements that can easily trip up even well-intentioned businesses. For many Jamaican companies—especially SMEs—GCT errors lead...

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Transfer Pricing Compliance: Why Even SMEs Should Be Paying Attention

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Transfer Pricing Is No Longer Just a Big Business Issue Traditionally, transfer pricing (TP)—the rules governing the pricing of transactions between related parties—was seen as a concern only for large multinationals. But in today’s globally interconnected economy, even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly affected by TP rules, especially those operating across borders, within...

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Smart Tax Planning: How to Legally Reduce Your Corporate Tax Burden

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Reducing Tax, Ethically and Strategically Taxes are one of the largest expenses for any business. Yet many companies in Jamaica and across the Caribbean continue to overpay or miss opportunities to optimize their tax positions—not due to evasion, but because of a lack of planning. At Dawgen Global, we believe that smart tax planning is...

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General Insurance Contracts and the PAA — Simplicity with Tax Complexity

Life Assurance under IFRS 17 — A New Tax Narrative for Policyholder Protection

Tax Risk Management: Building Confidence Through Compliance

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC): Integrating Oversight for Better Decision-Making

Internal Controls That Work: Safeguarding Assets and Enhancing Accountability

Enterprise Risk Management: Building Resilience in Uncertain Times

Beyond the Deadline: Why Tax Filing Is Just the Beginning of Good Compliance

Navigating Jamaica’s GCT: 7 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Smart Tax Planning: How to Legally Reduce Your Corporate Tax Burden

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