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The Government is pushing to remove a clause in the Bahamas’ draft Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) agreement with the US that would commit this nation to deepening its involvement with Europe and the OECD on tax information exchange.
The Government yesterday said it has received bids costing up to $63 million for its Foreign Account Tax Compliance (FATCA) reporting system, which will process US client records from 2,000 financial services providers.
More than 130 Bahamian and international financial services practitioners took part in the 11th annual International Business and Finance Summit (IBFS) at Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma last weekend.
Resorts World Bimini yesterday announced the launch of a six-week Roulette training course for island residents, with selected graduates to be offered employment at its casino. The course, said to be one of several training programmes created by the developer, gives participants the opportunity to further their career in the casino industry.
THE Government’s “administrative readiness” for the proposed July 1 Value-Added Tax (VAT) implementation remains a “huge concern”, a Tax Coalition co-chair yesterday asking: “How are we to be ready if you are not ready on the other side?”
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) yesterday said it had no plans to sell its Bahamian operations or those in any other Caribbean country, following its exit from Jamaica.
What is the difference between a business logo and brand? I find many people become a little muddled over this, which is not surprising given that some entrepreneurs do as well.
A trade union leader yesterday said Sandals Royal Bahamian employees had little choice but to take a strike vote, after the resort warned its actions could deter potential foreign direct investment (FDI) in this nation.
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) initially demanded a three-year extension to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) existing cellular monopoly as the price for giving up majority ownership, Tribune Business was told yesterday.
Environmental activists had an “arguable case” against the Government and Resorts World Bimini over the latter’s planned cruise ship terminal, a Supreme Court judge finding there were “serious issues to be tried” despite his refusal to grant an injunction.
The Bahamian domestic aviation industry yesterday said it was seeking ‘equal treatment’ with other transportation sectors over Value-Added Tax (VAT), a senior figure fearing it would suffer “devastating” consequences if not ‘exempt’.
The Tax Coalition’s co-chair yesterday said it was the “slow release” of Value-Added Tax (VAT) details by the Government that had delayed public feedback, with the private sector body now poised to move on its own economic impact studies.
A leading QC yesterday urged the Government and Supreme Court to change their approach to ‘public interest litigation’, calling on the latter in particular to not “apply hard-fought commercial principles” to all Judicial Review actions.
A computer and information technology (IT) expert, who earned the reputation of being the ‘go-to’ man at the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD), has been named Employee of the Year for a record-setting second time.
More than a dozen brokers, agents and staff members of Mario Carey Realty (MCR) have taken a first-hand look at Palm Cay, the fully-funded 70 acre community on New Providence’s southeastern shore.
THE BAHAMAS Financial Services Union (BFSU) said the latest round of potential commercial banking lay-offs showed the benefits of being unionised, as it could do nothing for Scotiabank workers.
Most people really hate sales. Yet in many ways we are all salesmen, trying to sell a point of view, a product or a service. In fact, some professions have restrictions on how they can advertise their services, such as lawyers and doctors. Yet they still find a way to do exactly that, because everyone has to. But no matter if you use a hard sell or a soft sell, or any of the other methods out there, you are going to encounter the word ‘no’.
THE Bahamas Real Estate Association (BREA) has seen its membership “almost double” over the past seven years, its president yesterday saying it was “definitely working” to resolve recent appraisal management issues.
Albany is set to invest up to $100 million in a property that will be “the highest end product of its type in the Caribbean”, its managing partner yesterday saying its plans to create another Monaco were “not idle rhetoric”.
The Bahamas was yesterday on the verge of resolving a second multi-million dollar copyright royalties dispute, a development that will “work to our benefit” on the accession to full World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise holder was yesterday blasted for “inhumane” treatment of the 35 employees made redundant yesterday with the closure of its Village Road store.
Concerns over the Bahamas’ intellectual property rights regime should “have not impact at all” on its progress to full World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership, despite the US government once again criticising it for “lax enforcement”.
The appraisal management system being pushed by two Canadian-owned banks has “far reaching implications” that should make all Bahamian property owners “very concerned”, a well-known realtor warned yesterday.
TOURISM officials yesterday said they are hoping to attract a “routine arrival” of cruise ships to the southern Bahamas, as they bid to increase annual visitor numbers to a total of seven million.
Healthcare accessibility, a lean labour pool and the high cost of doing business were among the issues discussed last week at the inaugural Exuma Advisory Council meeting, held at the Grand Isle Resort & Spa.