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April 30, 2014
Expert: 2015 VAT more 'realistic'

A day after the government confirmed that it plans to delay value-added tax (VAT) implementation at least until the last quarter of this year, one of the visiting consultants from New Zealand proposed that a "realistic" date for its introduction would be later -- on January 1, or possibly April 1, 2015...

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February 19, 2014
MP says time is running out to explain VAT to residents

THE government is "running out of time" to explain Value Added Tax (VAT) to Family Island residents, North Eleuthera MP Theo Neilly said yesterday...

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March 08, 2018
VAT cash 'fuelled immoral spending'

AS the former Christie administration committed an ?immoral? fiscal travesty while in office between 2012 to 2017, the government?s direct debt mushroomed from $3.9bn to over $6.5bn...

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May 28, 2018
Minister of Finance unveils plans to recruit Bahamian VAT auditors

During IIA Week 2018, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance K. Peter Turnquest announced that the Government?s VAT audit plan will create new career paths for Bahamians, and eliminate the practice of outsourcing to international VAT auditors.

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June 08, 2018
McAlpine calls for income tax rather than VAT rise

OUTSPOKEN Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine yesterday ridiculed his government's budget, telling parliamentarians it appears Free National Movement politicians have reneged on their words...

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June 11, 2018
2.5bn in VAT income - yet debt went up

THE government has collected some $2.5bn in value added tax revenue since 2015, according to Finance Minister Peter Turnquest who accused the former Christie administration of mismanaging the money...

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June 13, 2018
Miller says he will vote against VAT increase

GOLDEN Isles MP Vaughn Miller yesterday became the third Free National Movement member of Parliament to publicly oppose the government's impending value added tax increase...

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June 14, 2018
Hundreds protest VAT rise

Hundreds are protesting the VAT increase and sliding tax on web shops in Rawson Square this morning.

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June 14, 2018
Webshop Employees and Demonstrators March Against Pending Increase on VAT

Web shop employees and other demonstrators marched downtown today in protest of the pending 60 percent increase in value added tax (VAT) and the proposed sliding scale tax scheme for web shop operators...

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June 15, 2018
'Stop tax rises': Hundreds march to oppose VAT hike and gambling levy

HUNDREDS of people marched from the Southern Recreation Grounds to Rawson Square yesterday morning to protest the proposed 60 percent increase in value added tax and a new sliding scale tax on web shops...

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