{"id":14508,"date":"2011-11-01T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2011-11-01T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:25:16","slug":"imf-warning-to-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/imf-warning-to-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"IMF Warning To The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas was last week given &#8220;a warning&#8221; by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to prevent its debt-to-GDP ratio going into 60-70 per cent &#8220;bad territory&#8221;, the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation&#8217;s (BCCEC) chairman urging this nation to keep all tax reform options &#8211; including an income tax &#8211; on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting that the Washington-based Fund had given the Bahamas a &#8216;road map&#8217;, or &#8220;prescription&#8221;, on how to address its declining fiscal position, Winston Rolle again urged that open discussions be held on tax reform, given that the various trade agreements this nation was entering required a reduction, and elimination, of many Customs tariff rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas was warned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to prevent its debt-to-GDP ratio from slipping into 60-70 per cent &#8220;bad territory&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[98,40,275],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-financial","tag-government","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}