On Wednesday, May 27th, 2015, the Prime Minister presented the 2015/2016 Budget to the House of Assembly. In it the Government announced that effective July 1st, 2015 there will be several significant changes to the Business Licence regime. These impending changes appear in the draft Business Licence (Amendment) Bill, 2015 (the “Bill”), and are summarized below:

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