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Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips, speaking at the 2015 Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League Limited Convention and the 74th Annual General Meeting, held at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort on May 29. He congratulated the Credit Union Movement for the role it has been playing in the development of the financial sector.
Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips, speaking at the 2015 Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League Limited Convention and the 74th Annual General Meeting, held at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort on May 29. He congratulated the Credit Union Movement for the role it has been playing in the development of the financial sector.

Finance Minister Commends Credit Union Movement

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips, has commended the Credit Union Movement for being “one of the fundamental building blocks of modern Jamaican society.” Addressing the 2015 Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League Limited Convention and 74th Annual...
Some of the graduates who participated in the thirteen-month Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) Tax Audit and Revenue Administration (TARA) Post Graduate Diploma Programme, administered by the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), at the recent graduation ceremony, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel, in St. Andrew.
Some of the graduates who participated in the thirteen-month Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) Tax Audit and Revenue Administration (TARA) Post Graduate Diploma Programme, administered by the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), at the recent graduation ceremony, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel, in St. Andrew.

More Revenue Administrators to Assist Tax Payers
Delivering his budget presentation in March this year, Dr. Phillips informed that for the current fiscal year of 2015/16, the DBJ has set a lending target to MSMEs of $4 billion.
Delivering his budget presentation in March this year, Dr. Phillips informed that for the current fiscal year of 2015/16, the DBJ has set a lending target to MSMEs of $4 billion.

Finance Minister Hints at Lower Interest Rates
Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Colin Bullock (foreground), addresses the PIOJ’s Quarterly Press Briefing at its Oxford Road offices in Kingston today (May 12). Also pictured is Deputy Director General, Economic Planning and Policy Logistics, PIOJ, Richard Lumsden.
Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Colin Bullock (foreground), addresses the PIOJ’s Quarterly Press Briefing at its Oxford Road offices in Kingston today (May 12). Also pictured is Deputy Director General, Economic Planning and Policy Logistics, PIOJ, Richard Lumsden.

PIOJ Reports 0.3 Per Cent Growth for January to March
Minister with responsibility for the Public Service in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Hon. Horace Dalley (standing 5th right), and Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse (standing 3rd left), poses with members of the visiting Chinese ophthalmology team, at a welcome ceremony on Monday (May 18), at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Others (standing from 4th left) are: Deputy Director General, Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Yu; Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Dong Xiaojun; and President of the Beijing Tongren Hospital, Dr. Wu Jixiang.
Minister with responsibility for the Public Service in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Hon. Horace Dalley (standing 5th right), and Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse (standing 3rd left), poses with members of the visiting Chinese ophthalmology team, at a welcome ceremony on Monday (May 18), at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Others (standing from 4th left) are: Deputy Director General, Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Yu; Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Dong Xiaojun; and President of the Beijing Tongren Hospital, Dr. Wu Jixiang.

200 Cataract Patients to Receive Free Eye Surgery

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Finance & Public Service

House Debates Committee Report on Public Procurement Act

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, June 2, started debate on the Joint Select Committee Report on the Public Procurement Act. The legislation is aimed at modernising Jamaica’s public procurement laws and will reflect new policy thinking and international best practices in the area. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Hon. Horace Dalley, who chaired the...
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Finance & Public Service

Implementation of Withholding Tax on Specified Services Date Postponed

The Ministry of Finance and Planning (MOFP) is advising that the implementation of withholding tax on specified services is postponed, until further notice. The Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. the Honourable Peter Phillips and the Commissioner General, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), Mr. Ainsley Powell recently met with stakeholders from various private sector groups and have agreed to delay implementation...
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Minister of Finance and Planning, Hon. Dr. Peter Phillips. (FILE)
Finance & Public Service

Finance Minister Leads Jamaican Delegation to 45th Annual Meeting of the CDB

Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips leads a Jamaican delegation to attend the 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in Basseterre, St. Kitts. Dr. Phillips will also participate in the ‘handing over’ ceremony as responsibility passes to Jamaica to host the 46th Annual Meeting of the Governors of the...
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Finance & Public Service

Withholding Tax on Specified Services to be implemented June 1

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is advising that after careful consideration, withholding tax on specified services will now be implemented on June 1, 2015. The new legislation will be introduced on a phased basis.  At this time only Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, as well as financial institutions regulated by the FSC and BOJ, tourism operators, utility and cable companies, grossing...
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Manager of Revenue Enhancement and Resource Mobilization in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Calvert Thomas, addressing a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.
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Persons Can Apply for Property Tax Relief

Manager of Revenue Enhancement and Resource Mobilisation at the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Calvert Thomas, says the Government is willing to work with persons who may have challenges to meet their property tax obligations. Mr. Thomas told JIS News that Jamaicans who find themselves in situations where they cannot pay their property tax may apply for a...
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Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (left), listens as newly appointed International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief to Jamaica, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, addresses journalists at Tuesday’s (May 12) media briefing at the Ministry’s offices in Kingston, where details of the country’s eighth IMF programme quarterly review, for January to March 2015, were announced.
Finance & Public Service

IMF Appoints New Mission Chief for Jamaica

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appointed one of its top advisors, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, as its new Mission Chief for Jamaica. Dr. Ramakrishnan, who served in a similar capacity in El Salvador, prior to her assignment to Jamaica, takes over from Dr. Jan Kees Martijn, who was the first Mission Chief under the country’s current four-year US$932 million IMF...
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