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PST and GST on S@H (was: Lego Studio Steven Spielberg Moviemaker set Review)
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lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on
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Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:59:34 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Bradley Dale writes:
> In lugnet.reviews, Chris Gray writes:
> > "Bradley Dale" <dinosauria_ca@yahoo.ca> writes:
> >
> > > I did the math before, and $5 S@H is about $16 of actual Canadian money. • Would
> > > that still be a good buy?
> >
> > Huh? US $5.00 / 0.65 => about Cdn $7.70 . Add GST => 8.24 . Where does
> > the rest come from?
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> Two places--
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> Shipping- $4.50 US
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> Taxes are added before conversion rate. And Ontario taxes are bad enough as
> they are- with S@H, it's about 21 cents per dollar.
The taxes are the same whether you add them before or after the conversion. So
it is still 15% (15 cents per dollar) on both American or Canadian dollars.
Jude
Also if you pay via a Canadian cheque you only pay 1.43 CDN to US exchange rate
which is better than the current 1.5271 Bank of Canada rate. At least that
applies to the current catalog. :-)
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