Trudeaus GST-Feiertag stößt in den Provinzen auf gemischte Resonanz

I tend to disagree with Danielle Smith on pretty much every issue I’ve seen from her, but on this one specific issue of the GST Tax free holiday (I can’t believe I’m saying this) but I think she’s right:

>”If you wanted to come through with the most complicated, convoluted, ineffective way of issuing a tax cut, they’ve come up with it.”

During the busiest time of the year, we’re all going to look through each one of our receipts (which often contain multiple different items), and check every one and do the calculation to ensure the GST was removed for the specific item we’re buying that is temporarily exempt? And there’s no logic or pattern to the exempt items which includes video games, children’s toys, Christmas trees, chips and beer, pastries etc.?

Suppose I buy a Chinese savoury bun that has meat in it. Does that qualify as a “pastry”? Should I argue with the old lady at the Chinese Bakery to make sure she removes the GST?

How are they going to enforce this if a business doesn’t apply the tax correctly? Is there going to be an audit of these businesses? How much is that going to cost?

Does anyone have any confidence that this is going to be executed in a common sense and efficient way, given that, for instance, something as seemingly straightforward as the Arrivecan app has so many irregularities that “[the total cost is impossible to determine due to poor record keeping](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/auditor-general-report-arrivecan-1.7111043#:~:text=Social%20Sharing-,The%20final%20cost%20of%20the%20controversial%20ArriveCan%20app%20is%20impossible,about%20the%20pandemic%2Dera%20tool)”?