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Canada and the GST
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Date: 
Sun, 7 May 2000 23:42:35 GMT
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Hello to any Canadians,
A GST is due to be introduced in Australia in July this year.
Fresh food is exempted (plus a few other things) and the rate is 10%.

When was it introduced in Canada and when did the rate rise ?
Have Canadians found the GST a 'good thing' or a 'bad thing' ?

pete.w



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  Re: Canada and the GST
 
(...) Some time around the early 90s IIRC. The rate has stayed the same as it was originally, despite a lot of doom and gloom at the time it was introduced that the goverment would inevitably increase the rate. OTOH, the out-of-power party at the (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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