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A 90-Day Digital Tax Readiness Plan for Caribbean Groups

A group that starts in October 2026 can finish a disciplined readiness programme before Jamaica’s planned digital tax commencement in early 2027. Here is what each month should deliver, who owns what, and how the board will know it worked. Executive summary Digital tax readiness is not a legal memorandum. It is an owner, a...

What Digital Tax Means for Tourism and Creative Services

Hotels, villa owners, musicians and filmmakers are paid through platforms that net off commissions, refunds and foreign tax before any cash arrives. The deposit is not the revenue, and the tax answer starts with who supplied what to whom. Executive summary Tourism and the creative industries are the Caribbean’s most visible exports, and both now...

What Digital Tax Means for Caribbean Retail and Manufacturing

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 margin effect is larger than most finance teams expect. Executive summary Caribbean retailers and manufacturers are no longer simply buyers and sellers of goods. They...

The Hidden Tax Data in Every Online Transaction

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 not ready for Jamaica’s 2027 changes or the region’s new registration regimes. Executive summary Every digital tax position rests on a handful of data points:...

Can a Business Have Taxable Presence Without an Office?

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...

Canada’s Reversal and the Uncertain Road to Pillar One

Canada enacted a digital services tax, reached back two years to collect it, then repealed it and refunded the money with interest.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...

Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

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 owns the product. Sellers who assume “the platform handles it” are carrying risk they have not measured. Executive summary A single online sale can involve...

VAT at the Customer’s Doorstep: How Digital Tax Follows the Customer Across the Caribbean

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, where are they, and who collects? Executive summary Every Caribbean consumption tax regime for digital services rests on one idea: value added tax (VAT) or...

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

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...

The Caribbean Digital Tax Moment

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, and boards need a method to answer it. Executive summary Until recently, “digital tax” in the Caribbean meant headlines from Paris, London and Ottawa. In...

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