The Department of Inland Revenue (DIR) is confident it will collect the remaining $100 million or so in real property tax (RPT) budgeted for this fiscal year, DIR Acting Comptroller
The Davis administration is in danger of branding itself as being about two things: consistently questionable travel with large delegations and squeezing Bahamians for taxes they can ill-afford. The opening of the economy provided much financial buoyancy to the public treasury, which the government, not surprisingly, spent with abandon. Crushing inflation also boosted government revenue,
Former Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis claimed in the House of Assembly yesterday that tax collectors are wreaking havoc in The Bahamas and Bahamians are suffering under a government “obsessed with getting the people’s money”. Minnis said this is all taking place as Prime Minister Philip Davis, who is minister of finance, flies around the world in