P.G. Chamber Examining PST Legislation
Monday, May 14, 2012 @ 3:01 PM
Prince George B.C.- The Chamber of Commerce for Prince George, is pouring over the just introduced legislation that will bring the PST back into force on April 1st of next year. The Chamber is expected to offer comment shortly.
In the meantime, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says there are several positive point to the legislation introduced today.
“For decades, the PST has been a complex and unworkable tax for BC’s small business owners. It was difficult to administer, cumbersome to remit, and fraught with dozens of administrative loopholes,” says Shachi Kurl, Director of Provincial Affairs, BC & Yukon for the CFIB. “Among the new measures announced today are changes CFIB members have called for.”
Kurl points to online account access for businesses to register and make tax payments, the harmonizing of GST and PST remittance dates, and the ability to register using a federal business number as especially helpful.
However, CFIB is disappointed not to see the Taxpayers’ Fairness and Service Code enshrined in the legislation introduced today. The code recognizes all taxpayers’ rights to fair treatment, timely appeals and dispute resolution in their dealings with PST officers. CFIB will be looking for this important provision to be added in the near future.
CFIB estimates transitioning to PST will cost the average small business owner approximately $3000.
Comments
Let me guess….12% pst.
“CFIB estimates transitioning to PST will cost the average small business owner approximately $3000.”
Just to give me an idea, how can one give some tangible definition to an average small business owner?
Working owner plus 5 employees for a $750,000 gross income as an example?
12%?? That was the HST …. it’s back to 5% GST + 7% PST ….
And hopefully my rotisserie chicken is back to 5% tax instead of 12% ….. :-)
I think BC’ers who rejected a lower HST cut off their nose to spite their face.
There should NEVER be a tax on food, ever!
That is where poverty begins, the price of food jumped 400% when that HST came in. And the size of packaging went down And the price of gas/oil went up, so no one tell me it’s price of shipping.
HST and corporate greed, is all what it is!
Now the penny’s gone, so everything will be rounded up, the consumer looses again.
What exactly do they need to pour over? The rates and application will be the same as before.
Oh, they took the “fairness service code,” you don’t say. Seems pretty standard operating practice for these outgoing BC Liberals to reword legislation to suit their want of not being held responsible for their actions. I think their new mantra should be basically G.F.Y.S., because that’s pretty much their attitude.
As 2 years have past since the introduction of the HST we should be reaping all the benefits of lower prices promised by the Lieberals.
This is a political party no one can trust and I can only hope a BC Rail inquiry takes place and a few folks from the lieberals end up with an iron cage for a new home. 6 million payout so the elite did not have to testify.
How about the 30 million payout to the mining group who had to give up their uranium project. 5 times the consultant’s recommended payout.
Gotta love them Lieberals and Christy’s families first policy. Kind of makes you wonder how bad it would be to be in 2nd or 3rd place.
Hammy – please explain how the price of food jumped 400% with the HST?
@Hammy
Not sure where you shop Hammy but my grocery bill didn’t change so I’m not sure where you get 400% from. Never seen HST on groceries once. As a matter of fact my last Costco bill was 148.41 with 3.52 of that being HST on the junk food I bought. We paid GST on junk food before so no change there. My Stupid Store bill was 160.98 with 5.41 being HST on things like Glad Bags and Cat Food. Not one charge of HST on food.
Can’t wait to start earning my commission for collecting the PST again. It’s terrible to be an unpaid revenue collector for the Govt. At least the old system provided the business with some revenue.
” âFor decades, the PST has been a complex and unworkable tax for BCâs small business owners. It was difficult to administer, cumbersome to remit, and fraught with dozens of administrative loopholes”
How do you figure that?
The last time I was in business people paid their tax, I submitted it to govt and was rewarded with a commission.
How complex and unworkable is that?
Was I doing it wrong and missed out on all the complex and unworkable parts of it?
The HST didn’t change the price of fuel cause there was already road tax so the HST stayed the same as GST.
Personally I was kinda getting used to it…only really noticed it at restaurants but I don’t eat out that much anyways. It is easier to figure out just one tax. And the rate was going down to 11% this July!!!! Then 10% in 2014! Not a hope of the PST going down anytime soon now :(
The 11% and 10% were inducments to try and convince people to vote to keep the HST. The vote was to revert back to GST and PST. That bribe went the same way as the 15% income tax reduction.
Yep we sure showed them. Who cares if we pay lower sales tax, at least we won’t have that darned HST.
You mean that darned HST that included all kinds of things being taxed that weren’t under the previous GST/PST system. Overall we will be paying less tax to live than we are under the HST. Shame on anyone that thinks thats a good idea, hey ruez?
How soon we forget.
Here are some of the items we now pay 7% on with the HST that used to be exempt.
Lets not kid ourselves and pretend we dont pay any additonal taxes. The only way you could avoid this **stupid** HST tax increase would be to stay in your house, and in bed, and not eat or drink anything, until you died.
1.Airline tickets
2.Admission Fees
3.Basic Cable TV
4.Bicycles
5.Campgrounds
6.Catering
7.Commercfial leases
8.Computer servicing
9.Concert Tickets
10. Consulting services
11. Driving Range fees
12. Dry Cleaning
13. Fishing charters
14. Funeral Services
15. Golf fees
16. Hockey tickets
17. Home appraisals
18. Home Inspections
19. Membership fees
20. Landscaping
21. Moorage
22. Movies/Theatre
23. Real estate fees
24. Restaurant meals
25. Taxi fares
26. Veterinarian
27. Vitamins
28. School supplies
29. Parking
30. Skiing.
This is just a partial list, but you get my drift.
Very big tax increase for all concerned.
Nice to see its demise.
How many of those things do you buy every day? Or even every month? Now compare that to the things you buy daily that would have been cheaper. It’s to bad people anger overtook their common sense.
What? I’m paying HST on my fishing charters now! What a scam!
It’s too bad the anti-HST folks couldn’t come up with a better list.
who here thinks the government will walk away from that revenue without replacing it somehow?
I’m a pro NDP supporter so count me for one and yes I too know the demise of the HST will save me cash that I didn’t have when the HST was the only game in town.
As I stated that was only a partial list. There are actually 110 items that the HST applied on that will now go back to being exempt.
It matters little whether you buy an item once a year or every day, at the end of the year you will pay approx $1200.00 in additional taxes.
If industry saves $1.6 Billion a year on this tax, then the Government has to get this revenue from somewhere.
In any event this tax is **DEAD**
1.Airline tickets – Luxury Item for most
2.Admission Fees – User fee/ perfect
3.Basic Cable TV – Who has cable these days
4.Bicycles – Once every X years
5.Campgrounds – User fee
6.Catering – User fee
7.Commercfial leases – User Fee
8.Computer servicing – User Fee
9.Concert Tickets – Luxury Item for most
10. Consulting services – User Fee
11. Driving Range fees – User Fee
12. Dry Cleaning – User Fee
13. Fishing charters – Luxury Item
14. Funeral Services – Two things you have to do in life. Die and pay taxes.
15. Golf fees – User Fee
16. Hockey tickets – User Fee
17. Home appraisals – Why get one? BC sends you one that is close enough.
18. Home Inspections – Once a lifetime maybe, unless you buy alot of houses.
19. Membership fees – User fee
20. Landscaping – Once a lifetime, maybe.
21. Moorage – User fee
22. Movies/Theatre – User fee
23. Real estate fees – see 18.
24. Restaurant meals – If you can afford to eat out you can afford the tax.
25. Taxi fares – User fees
26. Veterinarian – Once a year
27. Vitamins – Eat properly.
28. School supplies – Shame on them
29. Parking -User Fee
30. Skiing – User Fee
The best tax is a user fee tax which is 90% of the above. People whine about the rich not paying their fair share. The best way to tax the rich is with a user fee system. I wonder if the prices will go down for things like parking when we revert back. I doubt it.
Well with taking so long to even start removing this tax they have made way over what was owed to the federal gov. Another scam from the fiberals
NoWay. What planet were you born on???
All those items you call user fee, are already user fees. The problem is that the Government then brought in the HST and taxed the user fee’s.
Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.
NoWay, and Interceptor,
Have you got kids, I mean teenagers?
From food, clothing, entertainment etc!
Do you need a chart with graphs?
My coffee creamer was 5.99 before HST
Now is 10.49 with a drop in gram merage, I’m pissed OK!
Don’t buy creamer then. HST isn’t on food, look at your grocery bill!
I think you need the graphs.
Am I the only one who pay’s HST at Save-ON.
I want a refund!
Shop anywhere but Save-On and you’ll save even more money.
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