Larry

"Your Name" <your.name@isp.com> wrote in
news:i5nfj0$hv8$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:

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> "Michelle Steiner" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in message
> news:michelle-820195.15565901092010@news.eternal-september.org...
>> In article <rmkt76lffbjd1eg8p3ilp2dsfnfr9r9pbc@4ax.com>,
>> DevilsPGD <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> wrote:
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>> > Interesting that VAT is included but Canadian taxes aren't
>> > disclosed until much later in the purchase process.
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>> A lot depends on local laws. As I understand it, advertised prices
>> in the UK must include VAT. In the US (and maybe in Canada), the
>> advertised
> price
>> is the pre-tax price. That makes sense for the USA because the sales
>> tax varies by state and sometimes by city. It may be the same in
>> Canada.
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> In New Zealand we have a flat 12.5% Government Sales Tax (GST) rate,
> which is soon going up to 15%. :-(
>
> In advertising they are meant to state whether or not the prices
> include GST. If the advert doesn't say, then it is taken that GST is
> included (which could be at the business' expense if they left it off
> by mistake).
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Just curious....Do they tax you for making money or just spending it?

Here in South Carolinastan we pay Federal Income Tax up to 35%, state
income tax up to about 7% when we make money. Then, when we spend money
we pay the state 6% sales tax, like your GST, plus 1 to 3% local
city/county sales taxes on top of that. If you take into account that
the price of the product has the taxes of the manufacturer, distribution
organizations and merchants buried into it, plus your own making and
spending taxes, the taxes on everything in South Carolinastan is about
90% of your paycheck.

We're very good at burying taxes. Our cable TV and electricity bills
from other corporations have a 4% "franchise fee" added to them, paid to
the city for allowing the cable and electric companies to have a monopoly
on selling us service. Our electricity bills have a "tax" forced upon us
to pay for the street lights in the neighborhood down the street.
There's no light in my yard, but I pay for theirs. Fuel taxes for petrol
is 34.8UScents per US gallon, about 4 litres. It goes on and on......

There's a "flat tax" movement but it will never happen as it would reduce
our taxes from 90% to 10-15% and starve bureaucrats at all
levels.....impossible.