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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: B.C. Provincial Sales Tax
Message-ID: <133@sask.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 15:55:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 15:55:15 1984
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>> It doesn't take a genius to figure out who loses in this one,
>> but my question is does the  B.C. gov't have the *legal* right
>> to impose a provincial *sales* tax on goods that were *not* sold
>> in B.C !?!?!?!?!   Any takers ?

since I know nothing about the law I will take you up on this one.
I think the key point is that they are not imposing a tax on the goods,
they are imposing a tax on you.  Since you are a "citizen" of B.C., they
have the right to impose any old tax they like on you (within constitutional
limits, of course).  It is relevant here to note that if you buy something
by mail-order from Ontario (substitute any other province with a sales tax),
you do not pay Ontario Sales Tax, even though you are buying Ontario
goods from an Ontario business.  Only Ontario residents would pay this tax.
(You are supposed to remit the tax to your own government, which was the
starting point of the original article.)
This is why I suggest that the tax is not being imposed on the goods, but
rather on the residents.