Fast food chain Burger King says its growth in Barbados has been restricted by burdensome taxes.
Operations director Everick Eastmond said while it was a semi-processing business, it had been lumped with retailers and as a result, it was subject to heavy duties.
Speaking during the company’s fifth anniversary awards ceremony yesterday in the food court of Sky Mall, Haggatt Hall, St Michael, he said: “We’ve been fighting to be recognised as a semi-processor and not a retail establishment. The majority of what we use is indigenous, and we add 65 per cent in value to what we take in; so it is time we be separated from the retail crowd.”
Afterwards, he told the DAILY NATION Burger King’s initial projections had it further than it was now. (CA)
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