Advantage Business Consultants

1 Bay Street
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas

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Beneby & Company Chatered Accountants

Marshall Road, Southern Shores
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas

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Bahamian firm develops HR, payroll software for CBS

Bahamian development firm Plato Alpha has snagged Commonwealth Building Supplies (CBS) as a customer for its proprietary TriblockHR human resources (HR) and payroll system, according to a statement on the contract. The system will be used by CBS to automate tasks performed by HR and its payroll departments, "drastically reducing the time and effort spent performing ...
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2013/2014 Bahamas Budget Communication

Honourable Members will be aware that Mr. Ehurd Cunningham, former Acting Financial Secretary, passed away last weekend. I want to take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude and that of the Nation for the many years of dedicated and tireless service that he so warmly provided to his dearly beloved country. Mr. Cunningham was instrumental in initiating, and indeed championed, many of th...

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Desecration of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park!

"We certainly do not agree with those who are calling on the government or the BNT to trap people into owning valuable and highly taxed land but not allow them reasonable access and use" - Bahamas National Trust.

Those were the words of wisdom uttered by the Bahamas National Trust in answer to public objections to permission granted by Minister Earl Deveaux, the Minister of Environmental Destru...

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Rolle: Central Bank addressing 'pain points' surrounding elimination of checks

Central Bank Governor John Rolle said yesterday that the bank is "very cognizant of the pain points that need to be addressed", particularly surrounding electronic payments in lieu of checks. He was responding to questions posed by Guardian Business regarding concerns of the private sector surrounding the elimination of checks.

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NHI without payroll tax: 'hopeful, but delusional'

President of investment and advisory firm CFAL Anthony Ferguson said the idea of introducing the Christie administration's National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme in January 2016 without a payroll tax to support it - supposedly to refrain from adding to the tax burden on Bahamians - is "hopeful, but delusional".

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Auditing the auditors

Days after The Nassau Guardian revealed the damning findings of a forensic accounting into the Public Hospitals Authority's (PHA) supply of pharmaceutical drugs and medical supplies, PHA Managing Director Herbert Brown wrote Minister of Health Dr. Perry Gomez asking for his intervention and requesting that the auditor general conduct yet another audit, National Review can confirm.

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The bill for the healthcare dream

Value-added tax (VAT) is on the way. It is scheduled for January 1, 2015. National Health Insurance (NHI) is also supposed to be coming in January 2016. That will be funded by a tax too. The last version of NHI under Perry Christie's first government was to be paid for by a payroll tax.
The government has engaged a Costa Rican firm to look again at NHI. The last estimate of its cost was $235 milli...

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Consultants reach different conclusions on VAT

Studies commissioned by the government and the Coalition for Responsible Taxation have reached different conclusions about which tax would be most appropriate as the centerpiece of tax reform for The Bahamas, Guardian Business has learned, with U.S. economists pointing to value-added tax (VAT), while global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm Oxford Economics has highlighted payroll tax as ...

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