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Old 04-24-2007, 05:03 PM
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This may be a dumb questions, but I'm going to ask it anyway!

Does Jamaica have a personal income tax system? We were talking about this the other night, and Dwayne (who just moved here from Jamaica) said that they don't, but I was wondering if that is just because he never filed!
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This may be a dumb questions, but I'm going to ask it anyway!

Does Jamaica have a personal income tax system? We were talking about this the other night, and Dwayne (who just moved here from Jamaica) said that they don't, but I was wondering if that is just because he never filed!
Jomo said he paid taxes every year.
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Re: Personal taxes?
That's kind of what I thought. Dwayne was "self-employed", so I figured he just didn't file taxes.
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"self-employed" just made me laugh, Blue.
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Re: Personal taxes?
More info on taxes are at http://www.jamaicatax-online.gov.jm/
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This may be a dumb questions, but I'm going to ask it anyway!

Does Jamaica have a personal income tax system? We were talking about this the other night, and Dwayne (who just moved here from Jamaica) said that they don't, but I was wondering if that is just because he never filed!
Yes, Jamaica has an income tax system as well as a consumers taxation (called GCT - General Consumption Tax and SCT)similar to VAT (UK) and State/Federal taxes on Goods and services in the USA.

Granted there is no enforcement arm of the collector of taxes as there is with the IRS but when caught you can get into some real serious trouble.
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There are also the standard taxations such as Property, Excise/Duty and Other Special taxes for business operations and such alike.
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