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Can a Business Have Taxable Presence Without an Office?

October 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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 in a market where it has never signed a lease. Executive summary “We have no office there” is the commonest answer Caribbean businesses give on...

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Canada’s Reversal and the Uncertain Road to Pillar One

September 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Canada enacted a digital services tax, reached back two years to collect it, then repealed it and refunded the money with interest.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, and a signpost for Caribbean states choosing between the OECD, the United Nations and their own consumption taxes. Executive summary In June 2024 Canada enacted...

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Jamaica’s GCT on Foreign Digital Services: What Changes in 2027

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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 businesses are taxed twice. Executive summary Jamaica’s Budget for fiscal year (FY) 2026/27 proposes to apply General Consumption Tax (GCT) to digital services and intangibles...

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Every territory has its own tax. The group should still read as one set of numbers.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Local compliance is genuinely local and cannot be harmonised away. What can be harmonised is everything underneath it — the chart, the definitions, the cut-off and the eliminations. Most groups have it the other way round. IN SHORT A multi-territory group has to file locally under local rules, in local currency, to local deadlines. That...

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Do you need a ledger, or an operating system?

September 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cloud accounting or ERP — how the tier is actually decided Almost every business asks this as a software question, and buys the wrong answer. This article sets out the two constraints that make a system feel too small, the six questions that decide the tier, and an honest account of what a connected application...

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Distance stopped being a cost in accounting.

August 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Virtual accounting services and remote bookkeeping in the Caribbean Proximity in accounting was physics, not preference — four physical constraints that have all since dissolved. This article sets out what severed them, what the habit of paying for distance still costs a regional business, and the short honest list of work that genuinely still has...

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The Firm That Cannot See Itself: Why Caribbean SMBs Need Management Information, Not Just Accounts

May 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the opening article of Pillar 3 of the Caribbean Digital Foundations Series. Pillar 2 — now complete — was the pillar of defence: the operational disciplines required to protect what the firm has built. Pillar 3 is the pillar of visibility: the operational disciplines required to know what the firm is actually doing....

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From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first five articles in this series were largely diagnostic and prescriptive. This article — the final piece in the Foundations pillar — is neither. It is a migration playbook for the Caribbean family business that has been operating successfully for ten, twenty, or thirty years on a tangle of personal email, founder-controlled accounts, and...

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first three articles in this series have asked Caribbean boards uncomfortable questions about digital infrastructure that has already been set up — usually badly. This article is for the entrepreneur, the family-business successor, or the partner of a newly-formed firm who has the rare opportunity to do it correctly from the first day. It...

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The Domain You Don’t Own: Why Most Caribbean SMBs Are Renting Their Digital Identity

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In a region where business is built on relationships and trust, too many Caribbean SMBs are conducting their digital lives on infrastructure they neither own nor control. The most overlooked governance question on the average Caribbean board agenda is not cybersecurity. It is the domain name itself. The phone call no founder wants to receive...

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Can a Business Have Taxable Presence Without an Office?

Canada’s Reversal and the Uncertain Road to Pillar One

Jamaica’s GCT on Foreign Digital Services: What Changes in 2027

The Firm That Cannot See Itself: Why Caribbean SMBs Need Management Information, Not Just Accounts

From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

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