The Tax Authority is advising the public that all its locations have reopened for usual business today (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) except for the Annotto Bay and Portmore Tax Offices. The Annotto Bay and Portmore Tax Offices remain closed to the public today, as out of an abundance of caution structural engineers have been engaged to conduct further assessments,...

The Tax Authority will be operating select Tax Offices this Saturday, October 28, 2023, as it continues to provide weekend services every last Saturday of the month for the 2023/24 financial year. The following Tax Offices will operate this Saturday between the hours of 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.: • St. Andrew (Constant Spring) • Montego Bay (FCJ Building at...

Jamaica’s unemployment rate for July 2023 was 4.5 per cent, equalling the record-low outturn reported for April. Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Carol Coy, who was addressing the agency’s virtual quarterly press briefing on Wednesday (October 18), informed that the rate was 2.1 percentage points lower than July 2022. There were 1,315,100 employed persons in July...

Persons interested in participating in the Jamaica Business Development Corporation’s (JBDC) one-day workshop on: ‘Introduction to Oil Extraction’, are being reminded that the deadline for registration is Friday, October 20. The workshop will be held at the entity’s Incubator and Resource Centre, 76 Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston, on Tuesday, October 31. It will explore topics surrounding the market trends for...

National Project Manager, Sanniel Wilson-Graham, addresses a validation session for the Hot Pepper Status Report and the Market Assessment Report for the ‘Improving Phytosanitary, Food Safety and Market Access Opportunities along the Hot Pepper Value Chain in Jamaica’ project. The session was held on Wednesday (October 18) at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) Multi-Purpose Room in Kingston.

The second leg of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce’s ‘MSME Business Roadshow’ is slated for Thursday, October 26 at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James. This follows the event’s initial staging in August where operators of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) benefited from a series of activities geared towards growing their businesses. Permanent Secretary...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) wishes to advise employers that monthly statutory deductions (S01) for September are due on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. This is because of the usual due date of the 14th day of the month falling on the weekend, and the Monday being a public holiday. Taxpayers may therefore submit their September S01 the following business day, Tuesday,...