On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:15:20PM +1000, Ben Leslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:02:03PM +0930, Richard Sharpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:53:38AM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>wrote:
[snip]
> No you get all of it back, the GST is a *consumer* tax. Anything you buy
> for business will eventually be passed on to your customers (assuming you
> want to operate at a profit), if the government charges tax at both points
> it is double dipping. (Incidently Hanson proposed a tax that did operate
> like this although the rate was only 2% not 10%).
Point taken then and I was wrong!
Sorry to Richard Sharpe, too as I fired back to sharply.
jobst
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