Elfwine opened this issue on Nov 19, 2007 · 47 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 3:12 PM
Quote - > Quote - > Quote - > Quote - no canada-bashing please, especially as their dollar is now worth more than the americans'. :lol:
Prices up here don't reflect that though!!! It's lame!! A $49 US XBOX 360 game is still $59 or $69 Canadian!! SO doesn't really seem all that different with the Canadian dollar finally doing well!!
Gerard
IIRC, the VAT tax instantly slaps something like a 33% surcharge on all items sold in Canada. We've got state sales taxes to deal with in the US, but none of them are THAT high. Not even in Taxachusetts.
what?? where did you get that idea from? 33%? thats stupid. here in Ontario it's 8% PST and 6% GST for a total of 14% tax.....thats kind of less than 33% ain't it?
I'm not sure that the entire price differential is directly attributable to the VAT itself -- although that's definitely a factor. The approx. percentage was told to me by a former Canadian (I met a lot of those in Washington), who shared it with me -- but I'll admit that it's not an issue that I've studied in any detail. I've never had a reason to.
I do, however, know that prices on merchandise in general are considerably higher in Canada than they are in the US. It's not hard to tell -- each time that I purchase an item such as a book, and there are two prices listed on the cover. $7.95 US / $10.95 Canadian -- or something like that.