Comments on: Not a Tax Grab After All: CCPA report on HST

By: Anon-A-Moose

Anon-A-Moose — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:57:33 +0000

I am type who gets screwed the most by this HST implementation. I do not make enough to enjoy a 1% tax cut, yet my cost of living is really no cheaper, but I still receive only the minimum GST, HST, and OST rebates. Then to top it off the HST added nearly $20 to my “budgeted” gas bill every month. I have no spouse or children; yet I am getting soaked in order to support your children for school or your spouse because she/ he wants to stay home.

By: susan

susan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:34:20 +0000

It’s naive to think that business will pass on the savings. It’s just another hit for hard working families. All the corruption and garbage that has gone on with these institutions I can’t believe how stupid our government is. Families need help directly not through tax credits and other tax ploys. GST, PST, Income Taxes, Property Tax hikes, fees on services and now HST!-the family doesn’t have a chance!

By: CanadianInvestor

CanadianInvestor — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:25:45 +0000

Uh, oh. the CCPA report isn’t available any longer on the CCPA website. Just tried getting it and got message “access denied”….

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:29:58 +0000

As a senior living on my own, The HST, will cause me to lose my house. When you are on a pension, you get no increase in pay. Pensioners have fallen very much behind. Prices on everything, have gone out through the roof, so year by year, pensioners, have lost ground. The only way low income families can cut back on costs are food and utilities. My furnace is at 12 for day, overnight, it is set on 10. Laundry is done in cold water, clothes are hung up to dry, only one light is on at a time. Buying meat, is out of the question, so is cheese, we do without, many things that other people take for granted. My car is long gone, to catch up on bills. Living in northern BC, is costly, the HST is a killer. There will be a lot of families, and, single Moms and their children to be, living on the street. Never in my many years, have I seen, big business pass any savings on to the consumer. The HST, was planned for big business for their benefit only. Everything Campbell has to say, I automatically deem it a lie.

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By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:35:12 +0000

@boko: Yes, it is true that Ontario can’t sell a steady stream of assets to finance the deficit. Still, I think that the Government should get out of the liquor distribution business especially now that reports indicate pension funds are willing to pay top dollar. The one crown corporation I’m not sure about is OLG. If it is privatized, it should be regulated such that we don’t have an epidemic of gambling addiction.

@Ghostryder: I agree that that CCPA deserves a pat in the back for publishing the results even when it did not agree with their initial assumptions.

http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/the-fraser-institute-and-average-canadian-family/

@Steve: The Citizen reported today that pension funds are salivating over the prospect of acquiring LCBO and other assets. This might be a good time to get top dollar for these assets.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:43:53 +0000

The reality is, we face a future of higher taxation. I’m in B.C. and I feel very alone as a supporter of the HST. Though the outrage at the government is deserved — the Campbell Liberals deliberately misled voters during the election — the HST is more efficient than the PST. As for bigger scope of the HST, i.e. haircuts and restaurant meals and such, I prefer to pay a little more for these things than face an increase in income taxes.

By: Jess Valenzuela

Jess Valenzuela — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:42 +0000

If I’m the government, why would I sell an Asset producing income!? Why not sell the one that is not performing well? It doesn’t make sense.

HST is a Tax Grab. If a parent who wants to transfer a 2 million asset to their kids, they have to pay *drum* $260,000!

And for people, who say it will benefit Ontario because company will not have to pay tax, just take a look at what happened to Atlantic Canada. They have an Office in Canada but their factory is in South America! They also promise that savings will pass on to consumer and looked at what happened to GST!

Government knows that in the next 3 years, there will be the biggest transfer of wealth and they want those money! Over 70 million Baby Boomers will retire in North America.

This is why CREA, OREA, Mutual Funds, Condo owners, Land Lords, Restaurant owners are all fighting for it…

Next year, watch out for High Interest Rates, Inflation, Tax Grabs, and Debts. I say a mini recession in Ontario!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:39 +0000

The LCBO is “profitable” the same way taxes are “profitable” for government. It’s a regulated monpoly, able to extract all consumer surplus.

The Ontario government could nationalize and monpolize lots of other industries, which would suddelnly become “profitable” for government.

Better idea. Sell it. Government can still pull all the liquor taxes. If government needs money, it should be gained through taxation, not regulated monopolization.