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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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Treaty Access Under Scrutiny: Substance, Beneficial Ownership and Principal Purpose Risk

June 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Treaty access used to be a paperwork question. It is now an evidence question. The entity that cannot show genuine substance, beneficial ownership, and commercial purpose may hold a residency certificate and still lose the benefit it relies on. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Double tax treaties remain essential tools in international business: they reduce withholding tax, allocate...

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Board Minutes and Tax Substance: Why Documentation Can Make or Break a Holding Company Structure

June 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary In modern international tax planning, documentation is no longer an administrative afterthought. It is a central part of tax defence. Holding companies, investment platforms, regional headquarters, and cross-border ownership structures may be legally valid, but they remain exposed if the evidence does not prove that they are commercially real. The recent Milan...

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When Is a Holding Company a Conduit? Understanding Beneficial Ownership and Anti-Avoidance Risk

June 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Key Insight: A holding company is not vulnerable merely because it is lean. It becomes vulnerable when it lacks real substance, decision-making autonomy, commercial purpose, and evidence that it controls the income or assets it legally holds. Executive Summary Holding companies remain valuable tools in international tax and corporate structuring. They can support investment management,...

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Substance Beats Formality: What the Milan Tax Court’s Luxembourg Holding Ruling Means for Cross-Border Tax Planning

June 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary International tax planning is entering a new era in which paper structures are no longer sufficient, but genuine commercial substance remains powerful. A recent ruling by the First Instance Tax Court of Milan provides an important reminder that foreign holding companies should not automatically be disregarded simply because they are lean, investment-focused...

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Regulatory Fragmentation as a Scaling Tax: Why the Caribbean Needs a More Integrated Business Environment

May 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The Caribbean has no shortage of entrepreneurial talent, business ambition, sector opportunities, or regional potential. Yet many companies that succeed in one Caribbean market struggle to expand efficiently across the wider region. The reason is not always lack of demand or lack of vision. Often, the challenge is structural: regulatory fragmentation. A...

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From Start-Up Culture to Scale-Up Architecture: The Caribbean’s Next Innovation Challenge

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Across the Caribbean, entrepreneurship is widely celebrated. Governments, universities, business incubators, accelerators, chambers of commerce, development agencies, and private-sector leaders have all encouraged start-up creation. This is positive and necessary. However, the next stage of Caribbean economic transformation requires more than start-up activity. It requires scale-up architecture. A start-up culture helps people launch...

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Higher for Longer: Refinancing, Maturity Management, and the New Mathematics of Caribbean Debt

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 5 of this series, I argued that Caribbean firms which pre-position their balance sheets for the next risk-off episode will gain market share from those that do not. This week, the series turns to the structural condition that makes that pre-positioning so consequential — the most important shift in the cost of capital...

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ESG That Is Not Financed: Aligning Sustainability Commitments with Capital Architecture

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Reserve Bay Hospitality Group — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated hospitality enterprise I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates four properties across two territories: a five-hundred-and-twenty-room flagship resort on a Jamaican north-coast site, a smaller boutique sister property at one hundred and forty rooms on...

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Designing a Pan-Caribbean Tax Operating Model for a Multi-Jurisdictional Group

April 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

C | Context A diversified Caribbean group, built over three decades through a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisition, had accumulated a multi-jurisdictional footprint whose tax management had not kept pace with its commercial development. The group’s fourteen legal entities, spread across six Caribbean jurisdictions, were each managed by local finance teams operating under...

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The Caribbean Digital Tax Moment

Treaty Access Under Scrutiny: Substance, Beneficial Ownership and Principal Purpose Risk

Board Minutes and Tax Substance: Why Documentation Can Make or Break a Holding Company Structure

When Is a Holding Company a Conduit? Understanding Beneficial Ownership and Anti-Avoidance Risk

Substance Beats Formality: What the Milan Tax Court’s Luxembourg Holding Ruling Means for Cross-Border Tax Planning

Regulatory Fragmentation as a Scaling Tax: Why the Caribbean Needs a More Integrated Business Environment

From Start-Up Culture to Scale-Up Architecture: The Caribbean’s Next Innovation Challenge

Higher for Longer: Refinancing, Maturity Management, and the New Mathematics of Caribbean Debt

ESG That Is Not Financed: Aligning Sustainability Commitments with Capital Architecture

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