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Re: bizarre changes to postage stamps due to GST
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 03:37:48 GMT
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Debaters: read this whole thread for a good example of how screwed up a
bureaucracy can get...

I suspect other pre-paid services like bus tickets etc probably have the
same GST-on-goods versus GST-on-services dilemma, and I suspect most of them
will be solving it in much the same way.

Isn't GST simple? :-)

Boy this whole thing is screwed up...

FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate

Frank



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  Re: bizarre changes to postage stamps due to GST
 
(...) I agree it's a fine line but you have put your finger on the nub of the problem: a stamp is a receipt. If GST was charged on the service and not on the stamps, then buying a stamp would simply be a receipt fo advanced payment received by (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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