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You could get the poobies to dial back their new era pricing strategies and get it back that way.
In any case, you can't really argue with this except on the grounds that Bell and Rogers basically do whatever the ♥♥♥♥ they want to whoever they feel like
If they don't 30000 a year they don't need to register.
The government just decided to change this because the Liberals have spent so much money, they need to scrape as much as they can with tax. and digital services are an easy picking.
IIRC this was actually supposed to go into effect in June, not July, Valve didn't warn people like some companies did, I know Netflix did.
The worst thing about it is depending on where you live, this could range from a mild annoyance in 5% in Alberta, to a pretty signifigant chunk if you live in the east coast where we have to pay 15%.
Prices have already been raised due to A - Publishers wanting more than $60 for their titles, and B - The imbalance of USD to CAD, Now expect to pay upwards of $100 for a title in Canada. that really sucks considering scores of people are already in low paying jobs with no real future or way out
You buy a $100 toy. you pay an additional 5, 10, 15 dollars that goes to the government for them to burn on something on the other side of the country, or give to a foreign government, lol
In the past, you buy goods in Canada, you pay sales tax on that item.
you order something from America or Germany or something, you dont pay tax, but you might get nailed by customs when the item gets imported, and be forced to pay the tax on the value of the transaction.
video games and digital services were a grey area because they were a foreign sale, and there was no physical exchange, so the previous rules couldnt apply
Our current government is notorious for running HUGE deficits, spending on god knows what and that was even before Coronavirus, so they implimented this to make some extra money from an already taxed to death populace
To fund our subhuman politicians' vacations and whatever crusades they want to go on.
It's no surprise they are coming to squeeze it all out of us. Can't wait to see my new property tax bill after the next assessment, given the "apparent" value of my home increased 33% over last year. What goes up 33% in one year?
Can someone knowledged on the subject enlighten me? I'm just curious.
I'm Danish, when I buy something from Steam, the receipt stats that 20% is my Danish value added tax (Moms, 25% of the sale's price = 20% of the total collected amount [25/125]).
But: since the EU prohibits price discrimination between customers from the various EU countries, steam does the calculation backwards, so they make the local tax fit while keeping the same total amount collected whether the customer is a German, a Dane or an Italian. So a part of the amount you pay is also your Italian IVA, and a part of what the German customer pays is his MwSt. Also, AFAIK, it is illegal in the EU to show a store price that does not already contain the national Value Added Tax, it certainly is illegal in my jurisdiction.
In terms of VAT within the EU, companies always charge the national VAT from their sales, but they can deduct the amount the company paid on its own purchases [with some exceptions]. The idea is that only the value added by the company itself is taxed.
In North America, the system seems to be simpler: Steam simply adds X% in tax during the checkout and stores in the US show store prices before sales tax is added.
Steam remits taxes collected, yes. They've been doing this for the European countries for a while, and many others besides, but there it is a part of the sticker. Here, it's added on because nobody wants to shake that 99, boy!
I really don't think that Steam and so on was the main motivator here. This is about Amazon, and those like, and preparing for a possible future of direct to home retail.
Also, again for Amazon specifically, there were loopholes with Amazon warehousing and Canadian rules surrounding domestic presence and US taxation infrastructure based on seller location and buyer location. It was all just a really huge grey area and now they're fixing it.
I just moved from an area that Steam was not responsible to collect sales tax for my purchases to one that does. And while that might seem bad for me, I'm now in an area that doesn't tax food. Since I buy more food than I do video games on Steam I end up ahead. I also used to live where there was added sales tax on top of what was already charged simply because of the street the stores were on.
So while it may seem simpler, it's because of the sheer complexity it deals with.
I swear I hope we vote that dumbass POS out for good.