Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free january for mail order Boom Ottawa up the goods and services tax will make shopping for american mail order products especially clothes and books better Deal than Ever although it was intended to fix some Trade the get actually hurts Canadian mail order companies and profits foreign a wrinkle in Canadian Law allows you to escape duty and the Federal get on items Worth less than can if you buy them from foreign mail order a loophole in provincial Law Means you can also escape paying provincial sales tax if you care and mail order companies Are leaping to take advantage of the according to the direct marketing Canad an companies say its costing them of the 30 million parcels that entered Canada in Only million were subject to excise tax and Federal sales that Means million escaped paying because they contained goods valued at less than than said Fred a spokesman for the customs and excise operations Branch of Revenue Revenue Canada is responsible for collecting duty and the two taxes when items come into but the Federal government exempted Small parcels to streamline its customs operations five years in million Small parcels met the exemption by there were there is no limit on the number of parcels you can import each Canada found it was spending an inordinate amount of Money collecting excise on Small Light bean of which Sells clothing and has a special Tollfree number for Canadian customers and distributes its catalogue in some Canadian up until the last two we never made an Active Effort in Cana but since we things have been going very said company spokesman Catharine our Canadian business in Gener Al is a Good growing she but refused to give sales Fig angers merchant the seven percent now being levied on some Canadian products such As shoes and books makes them than if bought through mail order which angers Canadian Mer consider a can Shetland Wool sweater from lands end of postage is there is no tax payable and no duty if you were to buy the same sweater for the same Price at an Ontario you would have to pay the get and the eight percent provincial sales there is a sizeable provincial tax Federal customs offi cers do not collect the eight percent provincial sales tax on any so the item arrives at your door untaxed by the person who receives the goods in Ontario is responsible for voluntarily paying the retail sales said Ralph senior manager of legislation with the ministry of the province Doest get supplied with a list from the Federal govern ment about what into the Ontario has agreements with que Bec to share sales information so Consumers who buy goods there can be forced to pay Ontario sales but so Ontario has achieved such an agreement with Only one if an Ontario resident Doest voluntarily pay the eight percent provincial there is virtually no Way the province can collect its an area that were working on Robertson the various loopholes infuriate victim identified Winnipeg police have identified a 26yearold Man who died saturday after being found unconscious in a Snowbank in the North Jim Raftis said Arnold Cecil of no fixed was found on the South Side of Magnus Avenue at Sinclair Street at about 8 he died in Hospital saturday an autopsy was conducted yester but results were not Raftis said there was no indication foul play was right now now were treating it As Raftis police Are still trying to Trace the mans whereabouts Friday Raftis said the body was found by a Canadian merchants like Leonard president of Otta abased Lee Valley tools who competes with tool because he has an Ontario retail he must charge provincial sales tax on shipments to Ontario Lee argued that hypothetically he could Export an tool made in Ottawa to his distribution Centre in and ship it by mail to a Canadian buyer free of duty and get and provincial sales tax for about 16 per cent less than if he were to sell it in his Ottawa that to me is if not 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