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Sales Tax In Canada

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In 1989 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney proposed the idea of a national sales tax of 9%. During that time almost every province in Canada already had its own provincial sales tax, that was apart from Alberta. The purpose of this sales tax was to replace the 13.5% Manufacturers' Sales Tax (MST) that the Canadian government put on manufactured goods. Manufacturers were worried that the tax did no good to their sales internationally. The GST was also planned t0 replace the Federal Telecommunications Tax which was 11%. Although the GST tax was the cost most Canadians paid towards the MST tax, most Canadians disapproved of the tax. The other parties in Parliament also disapproved of the idea, as well as three PC Members of Parliament, David Kilgour,

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