Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies

Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by qeternity on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:21PM (#13944428)

Fine, so knowing this, Uber collects GST and reduces the fare by the offsetting amount. In one pocket and out of the other. It's purely optics.

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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by run4yourlives2 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:25PM (#13944459)

Except for the fact that the GST gets remitted to the government, instead of to Uber. Your suggesting is an 5-17% reduction in margin, dependent on province.

Either way, collecting GST on a sale is the norm in Canada, regardless of what happens on the back end.

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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by qeternity on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:16PM (#13944841)

Read the parent:

> So from what I can see, Uber should be collecting, for itself.

My comment is not about remitting, it's about collection. Jesus.

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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by run4yourlives2 on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:15PM (#13949930)

I don't think you understand how this works. I can charge you $10 for a candy bar with GST included and make $.95, or I can charge $10 + 5 cents gst and make $10.

It's not at all the same thing as you previously suggested.

The entire point of this conversation here is that $10 + 5 cents gst is a price increase if you weren't bothering to charge a tax at all.

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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by graeme on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:31PM (#13944943)

It's not purely optics. It's either an increase in Uber's prices, or a decrease in their margins.

By "collecting, for itself" I meant "for itself as the seller" rather than "collecting on behalf of its contractors"

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