said by DragonSpyre :

Then again the Canadian government is now taxing Ebay users as well for the goods you sell being considered a source of revenue for the seller and must be reported and income tax applied.

said by Angelo_ :

Is the CRTC allowing Bell Canada to charge large sums of money because of the new HST law coming into effect. Essentially all that extra revenue will be taxable and it will be a huge cash stream for both the government and BELL.

said by freejazz_RdJ :

I don't think the Gov't is interested in the extra tax revenues from your broadband. In fact, under HST, broadband hardware purchases by carriers (Bell, Primus, anyone really) for fixed networks will not be taxed. I do not know if it applies to wireless hardware like cell or wimax networks.

The impetus for HST is not so much the extra revenues, but that business lobbied long and hard for HST to simplify the collection and remittance of taxes. Administering two distinct taxes that apply to different things was seen as a major administrative burden.

I do believe it will increase revenues however, and also lead to lower admin expenses for both business and Gov't.

said by MaynardKrebs :

But not likely any cost reductions that can be seen in the hands of consumers as businesses reduce their tax processing costs.

said by Angelo_ :

Is the CRTC allowing Bell Canada to charge large sums of money because of the new HST law coming into effect. Essentially all that extra revenue will be taxable and it will be a huge cash stream for both the government and BELL.

said by pat2008 :

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They have even talked about taxing people for garage sales because it's a "source of income" for some people who have more then 3 garage sales a year.

Our government is trying to find to many ways to take money from us and thats all i see these days nothing positive.
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said by Livadia :

Well, don't you think that if someone holds five garage sales per year is not a typical household? With your logic then, all the second-hand stores (heck, even all stores) should declare themselves "garage sales" and not pay any taxes. Then guess who is going to pay for all government expenditures (that being stimulus, health care, education and so on).

In some posts I am afraid , anti-government rhetoric reaches american levels!

said by An_Onymous :

>They have even talked about taxing people for garage sales because it's a "source of income" for some people who have more then 3 garage sales a year.

So if garage sale is treated as a income, then someone that sells stuff should be treated like a business. If they sell below the cost of the item after depreciation is in fact losing money. They should be able to deduct that off their taxes!?