Technically, if you buy condoms in Florida to prevent pregnancy you have to pay sales tax, but if they are to prevent disease you don’t.
Sure they want to raise the GST because it doesn’t affect the top 1% much.
Yeah, NSA is now longer the organization I was in. These days they amount to a criminal conspiracy as far as I’m concerned. They have joined Counter-Terrorism Inc. and lost contact with their core missions.
]]>Things that are GST-free include:
* most basic food
* some education courses, course materials and related excursions or field trips
* some medical, health and care services
* some medical aids and appliances
* some medicines
* some childcare services
* some religious services and charitable activities
* supplies of accommodation and meals to residents of retirement villages by certain operators
* cars for disabled people to use, as long as certain requirements are met
* water, sewerage and drainage
* international transport and related matters
* precious metals
* sales through duty-free shops
* grants of land by government
* farmland
* international mail
* exports
* sales of businesses as going concerns
* some telecommunications supplies
* eligible emissions units.
But the Lib’s are trying to raise the GST to 15% & on everything, no exemptions! It’s insane. It will make it virtually impossible for export business to compete internationally, and for farmers to compete with imports. Food & medical will go through the roof.
Of course, it won’t really impact the wealthy much.
OT: See what our morons @ ASIO (and sadly they now seem to be accompanied by ASIS in the *who can FUBAR the most* competition).
Australia’s bungling spies dialed wrong numbers and bugged wrong phones
Among other bit’s of incompetence. And that’s just this year! At least they didn’t blow anyone up this year, AFAIK anyway :/
” In separate incidents, Australia’s foreign spy agency, ASIS, sent private information about Australian citizens to foreign intelligence organisations without permission. It also spied on Australians without ministerial authorisation, had officers fire weapons they were not authorised to do and was chided about official record keeping.”
Seriously?! SO glad I am long out of it!
]]>You are paying the GST/VAT on everything, just like I pay sales tax, but corporations get exemptions. The little guys pay through the nose, but major corporations get refunds for taxes they haven’t paid. That’s right, they have negative tax bills because of the exemptions the Congresscritters they own put into the tax codes.
Small business gets screwed so corporations can benefit.
]]>OT: Seems the Gov is after Apple:
Can’t say I blame him, and I don’t like Apple anymore.
I’ve had nothing but trouble trying to get rulings from our ATO about my online business. They are glad to tell me what they think, but ask them to put it in writing & all I get is silence. I even took a certified tax accountant, and he got nothing also.
And the morons running the country wonder why all the businesses are going offshore.
I can’t see anything getting better until we have a *real* global economy! Which of course won’t happen. At least, not without a world war.
]]>Privilege means ‘private law’ and it’s available for anyone with money.
]]>He’s gonna get off.
]]>The Schadenfreude is strong with this one!
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