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Old 06-28-2004, 11:17 PM  
WiredGuy
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Originally posted by oldtimer
Its wonderful if you are a large corporation selling products outside the country, But if you sell your product in Canada, you have to tack on 7% to the selling price. On top of that, you pay your accountant, garbage collector and every other service company you use an extra 7%. You arent exempt from anything.

The exception is your lawyer. Mulroney was a lawyer as are a lot of conservitive candidates. I always found it interesting they made a special clause that stated lawyers dont have to charge GST.

I get a refund every year from every product or service I pay GST on, whether it was accountanting services, computers, software, even gas on my car. And seeing that I was recently fully audited they accepted my GST claims. In fact, they found I made an error and forgot to claim the GST on the base price of my car so I got an additional $1500 or so back. I have never paid GST for any product or service I bought in Canada in over 6 years.

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