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The Laptop That Stops the Shift

October 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Device downtime is a business continuity risk, not an IT inconvenience. Here is how Caribbean organisations can design it out of the way their people work. Rethinking how Caribbean organisations equip their people — a three-part series from Dawgen Global. Three failures, one lesson It is a Saturday night in February at a resort on...

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Your IT Team Is Not a Shipping Department

October 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Caribbean organisations that operate across islands should stop buying laptops one shipment at a time — and start buying a managed outcome. Rethinking how Caribbean organisations equip their people — a three-part series from Dawgen Global. A new hire, a sealed box and a customs warehouse A regional distributor hires a sales manager for...

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What Digital Tax Means for Caribbean Retail and Manufacturing

October 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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The Hidden Tax Data in Every Online Transaction

October 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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:...

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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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Digital Services Taxes and the Price of Gross Revenue

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A 2 or 3 per cent tax on revenue sounds modest until it is set against margin. Digital services taxes are expensive for thin-margin businesses, politically costly for the countries that levy them, and a poor fit for small Caribbean economies. Executive summary A digital services tax (DST) is a tax on the gross revenue...

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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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VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality of those businesses. It is a comment on the difference between value that exists and value...

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The New Global Internal Audit Standards: What Every Caribbean Board Must Know

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most directors will never read the Global Internal Audit Standards. That is understandable — the document runs to five domains, 15 guiding principles, 52 individual standards, and a growing set of Topical Requirements — and it is also a mistake. Because unlike the framework it replaced, the new Standards are not written only for...

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Business Development & Entrepreneurship

The Laptop That Stops the Shift

Your IT Team Is Not a Shipping Department

The Hidden Tax Data in Every Online Transaction

Can a Business Have Taxable Presence Without an Office?

Digital Services Taxes and the Price of Gross Revenue

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 New Global Internal Audit Standards: What Every Caribbean Board Must Know

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