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Canada enacted a digital services tax, reached back two years to collect it, then repealed it and refunded the money with interest.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

Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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The Caribbean Digital Tax Moment

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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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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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Invoices that send themselves, and chase themselves.

September 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Automating invoicing and receivables collection Days sales outstanding is discussed as a measure of customer behaviour. For most businesses it is mostly a measure of their own delays. This article sets out the four intervals you control, what each day of them is worth in cash, and why a gentle unfailing schedule protects relationships...

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If your bank feed is not connected, you are paying someone to retype a statement

September 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Bank feeds and automated reconciliation — how they work, and what they do not do Reconciliation is treated as an accounting task. It is data entry with a checking step appended. This article sets out the three ways a feed can be connected, what happens to a transaction once it arrives, and an honest account...

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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 Borderless Finance Function™: Digital Accounting for Caribbean Businesses

August 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The finance function most Caribbean businesses have was never designed — it accumulated. This is the argument for buying one instead: what the two platform tiers do, how the tier is chosen, what the division performs and what you keep, and what the arrangement produces every month. IN SHORT A borderless finance function is a...

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Canada’s Reversal and the Uncertain Road to Pillar One

Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

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

The Caribbean Digital Tax Moment

September 30, 2026Canada's Reversal and the Uncertain Road to Pillar One

September 29, 2026Digital Services Taxes and the Price of Gross Revenue

September 29, 2026Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

September 29, 2026VAT at the Customer’s Doorstep: How Digital Tax Follows the Customer Across the Caribbean

September 29, 2026Jamaica's GCT on Foreign Digital Services: What Changes in 2027

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