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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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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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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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What actually happens on day one.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Owners expect a transition to be a technology event. It is not. The first day is about custody, authority and cut-off — and the handovers that fail almost never fail at the ledger. IN SHORT Day one establishes three things and nothing else matters until they exist: who may approve what, from what date the...

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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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A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The only forward-looking information most businesses own is sitting in the sales pipeline, while the cash forecast is built from the receivables ledger — a record of decisions already taken. The future is in one room and the forecast is in another. IN SHORT A pipeline answers how much. A cash forecast needs to know...

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Attendance, approvals and the cost of a working hour.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most businesses know what they pay for an hour. Far fewer know what an hour costs them, and fewer still can say which job consumed it. That gap is where quoted margin quietly becomes actual loss. IN SHORT The cost of an hour is not the wage rate. It is the wage plus the employer’s...

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Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

September 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Payroll is the only monthly process that is at once a tax filing, the performance of a contract and a statutory record. Treating it as data entry is how a business acquires liabilities it does not know it has. IN SHORT Payroll sits on top of two bodies of law that do not refer to...

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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

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

The Caribbean Digital Tax Moment

A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

Attendance, approvals and the cost of a working hour.

Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

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