You can either put the true cost on the form or lie.
Once enough people are stealing from them,
the government will justify doing something extremely costly about it.
They hate competition!
Once the government started stealing even more of MY money in form of a fake HST on used vehicles (there's no HST, it all goes to the province) I stopped caring.
Your argument has always been - bend over because if you don't bend over, they'll ram an even bigger one up in there eventually. I don't subscribe to that point of view.
"The taxes on private sales of used cars in most of Canada are entirely provincial levies and have nothing to do with the GST or HST. In fact, these private sales are exempt from the federal part of the HST, just as they had been under the GST. HST applies to the purchase of any new vehicle, and that tax is part of the value upon any subsequent resale.
Moreover, the taxes on private sales of cars differ from the HST in that they apply to transfers rather than to consumption. They penalize the private exchange of used vehicles rather than consumption of their services — which simply shift to another owner. A car that is resold multiple times bears tax each time, whereas a single-owner car bears it just once.
The Ontario Finance Ministry justified hiking the transfer tax rate as needed to “help ensure a level playing field between used vehicles sold through dealerships and private sales.”
Yet contrary to governments’ claims of creating a level playing field between dealers and private sellers, raising the tax rate on private sales did exactly the opposite. It widened a pre-existing bias that gave a competitive advantage to car dealers versus private sellers.
When a dealer takes a trade-in vehicle as part of a new car sale, HST is imposed on only the net price — the new car price minus the trade-in allowance. HST then applies to the sale of that used car by the dealer, but the treatment of the trade-in means that tax in effect is borne by just the dealer’s markup and not the full sale price.
In contrast, a private seller of an identical used vehicle must charge the transfer tax on the car’s full sale price. That tax is borne by the buyer and seller, whereas the same car passing through a dealer would bear tax on only the markup. This tax also discourages private sellers from making repairs on vehicles prior to sale, since those costs bear tax twice.
By biasing the mode of exchange — favouring the channel that has higher overhead costs in the form of advertising, showroom, sales and office staff—the transfer tax impedes economic efficiency. The transfer tax also deters efficient exchanges even when the prospective purchaser values a car by up to 12% more than the current owner.
Adding injury to insult, the transfer tax on private sales falls disproportionately on lower- and moderate-income households. Those groups are the main purchasers in the private market for used cars; high-end cars owned by high earners are more typically used as trade-ins for new cars and thus benefit from the preferential tax treatment."
They got paid plenty of tax money on the original dealer sale. Wtf should anyone feel bad not giving them $$ repeatedly for the same vehicle?
