No. No, you didn’t.
Blacklock’s- GST Benefit Worth Under $5
Cabinet’s GST holiday will save the typical Canadian $4.51, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday.
“When it comes to retail, the average consumer will save approximately $4.51 over that two-month period per Canadian,” said Charlebois. “That is based on sales volumes.”
And what will it cost – both to retailers to implement the GST changes and to Revenue Canada to run and administer things?
I suspect when everything adds, up that this nakedly-transparent political gimmick will amount to quite the net loss
As I mentioned in these comments earlier, this is a particularly Canadian, and specifically Liberal-Canadian way of providing tax relief. Simply cutting or eliminating the GST across ALL items, thus providing ALL Canadians with permanent GST relief on everything, is not something our ever-sagacious federal government would do for the simple reason that they are incapable of conceiving of themselves as the limited government of a free people spending their extra after-tax dollars in a manner that each citizen sees fit.
No, this individualized, decentralized approach to dispensing a benefit from government is wholly alien to the current crop in Ottawa who see themselves as more of a ‘broker’ to all sorts of constituencies, interest groups, power blocs, lobbies, supplicants, dependents, etc., all making claims for government favoritism, rent-seeking, preferential treatment, and the like.
According to this worldview, government exercises and perpetuates its power by distributing (or denying) government largesse to these various constituencies (the tax system is a useful tool in accomplishing this) and simply giving everyone a generic, permanent tax break robs government – and quite decidely at that – of this tremendous power.
Is anyone going to try to tell me that this wasn’t taken into account when deciding what would and what wouldn’t be subject to GST relief, not to mention what an incredible make-work project the whole thing would be for the bloated bureaucracy of Revenue Canada?
They’re trying to fool you into thinking the chocolate ration has been increased from 8 grams to 5 grams. Get that? 8 grams to 5 grams is an increase, prole, so shut up and get back in line.
Let us admit that this is them taking the excuse of Christmas time to PUNISH the private sector with ludicrous rules and hoodwink the consumer with fake promises of a tax reduction.
Would a government that does not hate its citizens do something like this? I doubt it. It’s too stupid to be an accident or a mistake. Has to be an attack.
Hey, it’s an average. Some might save 10 maybe 20. LOL
We get back more in rebates than we pay in Carbon Tax! Well, there is some overhead, and we
don’t get the tax on the carbon tax rebated, and …………..
the liberals will suck it up like it is the pot at the end of the rainbow
What a joke. His attempt to buy votes with voters’ money is laughable. Please, can we just get rid of this moron and his ugly garden gnome troll assistant?. I mean Freeland not Singh but he has to go too.
The whole rules make no sense at all, some lego sets are exempt, others are not
Stupidity Squared.
That’s less than the cost of Disney+ for a month! Woohoo!
I had this suggestion on a previous GST holiday comment thread.
I still think most Canadians would like the idea better than a GST holiday.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/05/pity-the-poor-central-planners/#comment-1961484
Girl math.
Steve – trust me, that’s not girl math. Most women have long learned how to “hold household” and tailor the family budget to the family income. This is trust fund budgeting at it’s worst.
Granted, we do have a woman finance minister. But I doubt she has much if any control of these things.
All this phony tax holiday is, is an excuse for Jaggy to keep propping up the Libs. That’s it.