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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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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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Capital and Substance: Meeting the J$16 Million Requirement and Building a Real Jamaican Presence

July 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Two of the biggest market-entry hurdles for a VASP licence are money and presence — enough well-documented capital, and genuine local substance. Here is what the FSC requires, and how to prepare for both without stumbling. In short: every VASP applicant must hold at least J$16 million in paid-up capital — the same floor...

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Jamaica’s Proposed VASP Licensing Regime: The Complete Guide

June 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Everything businesses, boards and investors need to understand about how Jamaica will license and supervise virtual asset service providers — the six license classes, capital and substance, AML/CFT, proof of reserves, fees, and the road to enactment. In short: the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has proposed a full licensing regime for virtual asset service...

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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...

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

May 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the seven previous articles of this series, we have constructed the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — DAGAF™ — pillar by pillar. We have established the case for a Caribbean-anchored framework, mapped the foreign and regional regulatory regimes Caribbean enterprises must operate within, set out the architecture of the framework as a whole,...

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

Jamaica’s Proposed VASP Licensing Regime: The Complete Guide

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

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

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

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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