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Re:Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:04PM (#19097011)
> In Canada every single competitor has to charge a sales tax of 13%

Just to clarify, there's no 13% sales tax - that'll be 5% federal and X% provincial (which ranges from 0-10%).

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Re:Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in... by dmix on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:26PM (#19100735)
It's a bit more complicated than that with harmonized sales tax in 5 of the provinces. So technically in those provinces (such as Ontario) it is indeed a single 13% sales tax and no longer a combination of federal/provincial.

But largely in practice you're correct as even the combined HST varies (13% in Ontario, 15% in the four Atlantic coast provinces).

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