How to work with Farmasi in Trinidad and Tobago

Farmasi is a direct sales company: it manufactures its own cosmetics in Turkey and sells them through people rather than shops. You enroll as an entrepreneur, buy at a discount, and earn in two ways: from what you sell and from what the team you build sells. That much anyone will tell you. The detail is where it gets interesting.

Worth saying plainly: most people who join any direct sales company earn little or nothing. Farmasi's own 2025 income disclosure states that 46.43% of participants earned no commission that year. That does not make it a scam; it means half the people enroll, do nothing and drop out. Join expecting automatic income and you will be disappointed. Join understanding it is a small business you have to work, and it looks different.

Trinidad and Tobago is the only country on this list that taxes the act of buying online. A 7% Online Purchase Tax applies to goods purchased electronically and imported by air, and it is still in force — a January 2025 release granted waivers for specific goods only, not generally. VAT at 12.5% is then charged on customs value plus all duties and taxes, so it compounds on top of the OPT. Import duty runs from 0% to 30%, with most household goods at 20%, and freight sits inside the tax base, so cheap shipping matters more here than almost anywhere else.

The real constraint is not the law but getting dollars. The Central Bank has publicly acknowledged that demand for foreign exchange outstrips supply and that legitimate requests are not always met. Commercial banks have responded by cutting card forex limits — check yours before you commit to an order.

Between the Online Purchase Tax, compounding VAT and a tight foreign exchange market, fewer and larger orders make more sense here than frequent small ones.

As a side income, five or six focused hours a week will hold it up. As a main activity it is a full-time business like any other, except there is no salary: you earn what you move. The first quarter is usually learning and small numbers, and that is exactly where almost everyone quits.

Enrollment happens on the official Farmasi Trinidad and Tobago site and takes about ten minutes. The sign-up guide has the exact requirements, the paperwork and the direct link.