A heart felt thank you to all supporters of Bishara Resorts

After seeing the impact of VAT charges on my personal costs in sustaining Bishara Resorts, the support from those who heard of my situation or who read the issues here in our blog, has been fantastic! Emails and IMs of support, some donations even, have been pouring in over the last few days and [...]

Bishara Resorts Financial Report

Some of you have asked me what it has cost me to date to develop the resort as it is today, and though I do not have the exact costs on hand I will explain briefly in a summary:
1. Bishara Resorts is made up of four islands or sims (simulators) that each cost me USD1675.00 [...]

Bishara Resorts,VAT and our growth!

The last few months have seen a huge expansion for Bishara, with the estates growing from Bishara Island (1 sim or island) to four islands in size, with Bahati Island and Mandhari Island as our residents and new commercial regions, and the exciting Epic wave region we call Majini Island.
The main estate remains Bishara Resorts, [...]

VAT! More VAT blogging?

Yep, and again it is after reading Zed’s latest splurge about the application of VAT to EU citizens, and the wonderful and heroic actions from Linden Research, Inc, to try and ’save’ us from these charges, that I decided to write my own response here.
Reading the blog entry I noticed two issues:
1. Absolutely no apology [...]

VAT continued

In a further comment to the current VAT fiasco, Robin Linden refers to an article of the EU Tax directives that forced Linden to take the steps they did. Reading that BLOG entry has left me somewhat shocked for two reasons:
1. In it he claims that Linden Labs have been meeting with ‘leading VAT [...]