Re: Mental energy

Ontario HST is 13%, but we have more exemptions on the 8% provincial
portion than BC.

Overall, I'd say the implementation was better in Ontario than in BC,
including what things to exclude and first year rebates. However, it
is annoying that they didn't exclude electricity or water costs --
combine that with smart meters and time-of-use billing and we're
seeing much higher utilities costs this year.

Jeremy

On 6/9/11, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Karl Swenson wrote:
>> All I can say is when I was there in 2002-2003 I was amazed at how many
>> taxes there were.  GST and PST and the guys who worked there told me
>> about high income taxes.
>
> Well, we've fused the GST and the PST into a single tax now: the HST!
> (Which, to me, is a laugh, because back when the GST was introduced, there
> was a spoof of it going around called the Human Sexuality Tax, with T-69
> forms etc.)  Which means that, if you were paying 5% GST *and* 7% PST for
> some items, there's no change: now you pay a single 12% tax.  *But*, if
> you were paying only 5% GST for some items, or only 7% PST for other
> items, you now pay 12% for pretty much everything.  Sigh.
>
> Alberta, on the other hand, doesn't have *any* provincial sales tax, so
> they only have to pay the GST.  (The "H" in HST stands for "Harmonized
> Sales Tax", and since there's no provincial tax to harmonize with the
> federal tax, there is no harmonized tax.)
>
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