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taxes, taxes, taaaxes!

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youtoo

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Aug 21, 2007
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Hi,

I've just bought a MBP + iPod via apple.ca and I paid 315CAD of taxes!!!

That's a lot of money I wasn't expecting to pay! I was going to pay those taxes if I were buying the MBP in-store in Montreal?

I saw I still cancel my order so... what are your thoughts about this?

Thanks for your quick reply!!

PS: What a newbie I am :/ xD
 
Whenever you purchase from Apple, you will pay the applicable taxes. You would have to purchase from Amazon, MacMall, etc., to avoid sales tax. You then forfeit the MBP/iPod deal as that is only via Apple.
 
sblasl said:
Whenever you purchase from Apple, you will pay the applicable taxes. You would have to purchase from Amazon, MacMall, etc., to avoid sales tax. You then forfeit the MBP/iPod deal as that is only via Apple.
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You dont avoid the tax, you just don't get charged for it by the reseller. You are still responsible ;) for the taxes.
 
You have to pay the same GST no matter where you are in Canada (assuming you're there since you went to apple.ca), which is 6%. The PST is entirely dependent on where you are though. In Alberta there's none, while PEI has the largest in Canada at 10%. If you were to go in store then you'd have to pay the same taxes. You have to pay taxes on everything in this life.
 
mojohanna said:
You dont avoid the tax, you just don't get charged for it by the reseller. You are still responsible ;) for the taxes.
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Technically, businesses are responsible for disclosing sales taxes as it's a tax on items sold, not on item bought. The reason online vendors like Amazon and MacConnection don't charge you sales tax is because they don't have a physical presence in your state (I'm talking about the US here). Some MacConnection buyers do pay sales tax, but only if there is a MacConnection store in the state they live in. States know that people are getting around the tax in this way, so some of them are enacting a "use" tax, which is equal to the sales tax rate. Essentially, it would let the state get its money. However, if your state doesn't have a "use" tax enacted, I see no reason to pay the tax. After all, it was never your responsibility to pay from the beginning;)
 
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