Canada is taking more money from its citizens
Since July 1, 2010, Canada is now taking more money from its citizen’s pockets & of course Canadians didn’t start complaining about the HST until after the bill had pretty much been passed. This writer heard after the fact that some petition had been going around online, but because Canadians are so inept when it comes to the internet, we never saw anything pass through her inbox or anything mentioned online. And to be clear, we run our business online every day for 8-14 hours every day, but no, we choose not to read the negative news. Even if we did, the Canadian news doesn’t tend to showcase all Canadian protests, as there aren’t many to begin with.
Once again Canadians let the Canadian government walk all over them & it comes at a terrible time when Canada is still in a recession.
Every province in Canada with the exception of Alberta is now charging Canadians even more retail tax combining 2 separate taxes into one called the HST. 3 of the weakest provinces started the HST back in 1997.
The HST amount varies depending on the province, but it’s around 13-15%.
Tons of services that were never taxed before or were only taxed the GST (5%), are now being taxed an extra 8 or 13%.
This all comes as a shock to this writer, as we were FINALLY able to save some money because they lowered the GST down from 7% to 6% in 2006, & then down to 5% in 2008. This after we waited 15 years for them to do away with the GST altogether because they told us the GST was a temporary tax. Canadian’s idea of temporary is to keep the tax for 16 years & then increase it 8% 17 years later.
So what do Canadians get from all this extra tax?
The government says they are giving back more to the people by reducing income tax, but no one could explain to this writer how that will give more to lower income people who get a refund every year. When we asked one governmental official, she didn’t say the refund we get would be higher. Lower income people still have to pay HST on almost everything they have to buy. Not to mention anyone who buys goods on credit won’t be getting back the HST just because they pay slightly less in income tax.
Many households received a pittance cheque of anywhere from $100-300 for the year, but when you add up how much HST you are paying & will pay, that won’t even come close to covering it. Also once again Canada penalizes you if you don’t have children. They will give you some money if you have children, but nothing if you don’t. That’s how they run their income tax strategy.
While this has nothing to do specifically with HST, reading this thread makes you realize how complicated Canada makes consumer retail tax so that Canadians have no clue what they are supposed to pay tax on, nor how much. This allows some companies who know the system to rip Canadians off & pocket the money.
In the States most Americans know exactly how much they pay & there’s none of this game playing with you paying one amount if you buy X items vs. paying less or more tax for another set of items.
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