I am not pleased that restaurant meals will not get the 12% treatment..now I have no money left to tip.
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The timing of this is absolutely disgusting with taxpayers and families and businesses hit hard by the financial crisis. Mr. Campbell who fought the GST is doing this for the financial windfall it will bring his gov't's books. He also knows he can't be defeated in the Legislature.Robbie wrote:See who else is upset with the HST. Our former premier, Bill Vander Zalm.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/gets+pr ... story.html
Despite all the controversy about him when he sold Fantasy Gardens, at least he kept the BC PST to a minimal 6% during his reign.
Yes, the land of lazy, greedy tax-addicted politicians.Robbie wrote:That's British Columbia and Vancouver.
This is why as much as we hated the HST implementation my wife (I am away) voted to keep it despite the disgusting way in which both Mr. Campbell and Mr. Harper did this at such a poor time in the economy. It was what was being taxed that turned off the average voter as well as the blatant lies that it was not about to be put in all the while Mr. Harper and Mr. Campbell knew that the deal was all but done! It did not get done on the back of an envelope post the prior BC election as we were being told.Sir Purrcival wrote:Yes, this will result in some of these items going back to non-taxed status but it is going to come at a big cost.
1. We are gong to have to pay back the incentive money we received for signing up $1.6 Billion I believe. That is extra debt and that has an associated price.
2. We are going to have to pony up for civil servants and infrastructure to collect the tax again. We know how cheap that is likely to be.
3. Businesses are going to have to revamp their POS systems again which will be expensive and inconvenient.
4. Businesses also get to go back to the hodge podge of exempt/not exempt stuff especially grocers and IT technicians such as myself who had to collect the tax for some items and not others.
5. We also get to deal with two tax bureaucracies once again. Oh what fun that can be.
As a self-employed businessman, I can tell you this isn't a good thing for me. I do my own books, pay the tax man his due and carry on. My work has just increased, got a lot more complicated again and I'm not sure if we are doing this to "punish the Liberals" or "repeal a bad tax". It seemed like every tax expert I heard on the subject seemed to think that it was a better system of taxation than GST/PST. If this was meant as an expression of Liberal dislike, then we are a bunch of tools. If it was really a poorer system of taxation then, that is another matter. I guess we will find out in 18 months time. In the meantime, I wonder how many jobs are going to be put on hold for 18 months while people wait for certain tax exemptions to re-apply.
There is a saying " You can never really go back". I fear that is going to be very true here. We may have the GST/PST system back but there is going to be a lot of longer term spin off here and none of it is going to be good. Perhaps we shouldn't have gone to this system in the first place but we did. Now I am wondering if we have merely compounded our woes by going back.