{"id":39946,"date":"2013-09-25T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39946"},"modified":"2013-09-25T23:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:43:03","slug":"response-to-christies-comments-on-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/response-to-christies-comments-on-vat","title":{"rendered":"Response to Christie&#8217;s Comments on VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31699\" title=\"vat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vat.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vat-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Mr. Christie as quoted in The Tribune Friday September 20th\u00a0 &#8211; \u201cThere are lots\u00a0 of people who for their own reasons will distort the truth of VAT and use misinformation to cause people to say \u2018I don\u2019t want it\u2019 and we think that is a disastrous outcome&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters and sympathizers with the political philosophy of The Nassau Institute will recognize Mr. Christie\u2019s\u00a0 statement as an effort to discredit The Institute whilst avoiding a response to the concerns identified in the Independent Study of The Value Added Tax.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian tax payer is surely entitled to know what to expect and how he will be affected by the new tax policy.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped the information in the report will assist government in finding an acceptable way to address the National Debt.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamian tax payer is surely entitled to know what to expect and how he will be affected by the new tax policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"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":[14],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-39946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39946","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}