{"id":46525,"date":"2014-01-17T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/retail-federation-attracts-over-100"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:42:26","slug":"over-100-retailers-united-in-opposition-to-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/over-100-retailers-united-in-opposition-to-vat","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Retailers United in Opposition to VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">More than 100 retailers have joined an industry federation opposing Value-Added Tax\u2019s (VAT) introduction, its co-chairman,\u00a0Etienne Christen, charging that Barbados\u2019s predicament had \u201ccompletely dispelled\u201d the assumption the tax was a \u201cmagic bullet\u201d for this nation\u2019s fiscal woes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h48738-p6\">The Bahamas Federation of Retailers (BFR) currently has about retail operations who, combined, have a current employee count of just over 2,000 people. \u201cWe are still receiving employee count figures from many of our businesses that signed on from the beginning,\u201d Mr Christen said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/13\/retail-federation-attracts-over-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 retailers have joined an industry federation opposing Value-Added Tax\u2019s (VAT) introduction, its co-chairman charging that Barbados\u2019s predicament had \u201ccompletely dispelled\u201d the assumption the tax was a \u201cmagic bullet\u201d for this nation\u2019s fiscal woes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[3],"tags":[153,556],"class_list":["post-46525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46525","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}