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Taxing Questions |
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| Princeton, Ontario - Friday, November 15, 2002 - by: Rebecca Gingrich | |||||||
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GST |
In that $1.56 out of the $24.00 Airport Security Charge paid for a round trip ticket is paid as GST questions arise. | ||||||
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spin |
Was siphoning off revenue into the GST planned from the beginning? If so, was Finance Minister Paul Martin's assurance when introducing is that | ||||||
"all revenues collected would go to security spending" |
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tax on tax |
Public acceptance of this levy has been based on its being a security measure. In the public mind it is a dedicated tax. But since no tax could be levied on it, since a tax can't be levied on a tax, just what is it? A tax? A good and/or service to be taxed? | ||||||
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what's up? |
Taxing questions though these may be, to the former, the present finance ministers, 9/11 having been used to justify yet another financial demand, those having to pay have good reason to ask them, and better to expect answers. | ||||||
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| Hannaford, Nigel Air security charge: a tax on a tax, November 8, 2002, Calgary Herald, Global Television | |||||||
| Government of Canada web site on history of GST | |||||||
| Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) | |||||||
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