To the editor:
If you look at the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) panel report, you find the numbers used are based on 3,550,000 households in British Columbia.
According to government figures, however, there are only 1.8 million households in B.C. So, I have to give this report a fail.
When you buy a used car in a private deal and now pay $1,200 HST, instead of $500 Provincial Sales Tax (PST), as in the past.
When stats Canada states it cost each British Columbian $571 a year, I have a hard time with the independent HST panel’s $350 number.
When I just bought a used snowmobile for a $1,000 and had to pay an extra $70 in HST, I have a hard time with the number.
When it comes to job creation and numbers show that in December alone we lost 33,000 jobs and many more since then, I have a hard time believing the HST created a single job other than a ministerial one.
Gary Crosby
Gateway