As Canadians we pay in taxes: Accounts Receivable Tax, Airline surcharge Tax, Airline Fuel Tax, Airport Maintenance Tax, Building Permit Tax, Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Death Tax, Dog License Tax, Driving Permit Tax, Environmental Tax (fee), Excise Tax, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment (UI), Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Gasoline Tax, Gross Receipts Tax, Health Tax, Hunting License Tax, Hydro Tax, Inheritance Tax, Interest Tax, Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Mortgage Tax, Personal Income Tax, Property Tax, Poverty Tax, Prescription Drug Tax, Provincial Income Tax, Real Estate Tax, Retail Sales Tax, Service Charge Tax, School Tax, Telephone Federal Tax, Telephone Federal, Provincial and Local Surcharge Tax, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Water Tax, Workers Compensation Tax…… and on July 1, 2010 the Harmonized Sales Tax!
By the way, none of these taxes existed 60 years ago and we had a prosperous country with no national debt, a large middle class, and mom could stay home to raise the kids. European countries have as much taxes but they also have free education, good roads, better health care and four weeks vacation.
Many services and products that we only paid 5% for we will now have to pay 13% tax on. As a business owner this includes the rent that I pay and the goods that I buy (I don’t understand the government’s agenda to crush all business owners, the economy needs small business to survive!)
Enough of this bullshit! If we can get 10% of Ontarians to oppose this tax, a referendum can be called and the people of Ontario can make the final decision rather than have the government arbitrarily hitting us with more taxes. Register and sign this petition and pass this along to your friends:
http://www.hstpetition.com/petition/sign.php
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This is filed under rants for good reason – it bears little relation to reality. As a small business owner you can claim the extra hst you will pay on things like rent and other goods as an input tax credit when you’re filing your gst return with the Feds. The hst benefits you as a business owner by eliminating an 8% tax on various goods that was previously unrecoverable. You also don’t have to waste time filling out two sets of tax forms. Perhaps it doesn’t benefit you as a consumer but that’s a different argument.
Also, while bc has a referendum law if certain thresholds are met (10% of voters in each riding) Ontario has nothing comparable, so signing the petition you link to may make you feel better, but won’t have any direct effect on whether the tax is implemented.
We may get a tax credit at the end of the year, but as a business owner the HST puts a strain on our cash flow. My rent essentially goes up 8% a month and instead of paying $20,000 in GST for $400,000 worth of goods that I buy in a season I now have to pay an additional $32,000 for a grand total of $52,000. So my monthly expenses has gone up $7,000 a month – I’m not getting all of that back!