Originally Posted by exAC
I don't believe that will happen very much. It is the one redeeming feature of a value added tax. The tax is visible and comes on after the comparision shopping has been done. It is much better than those who wanted the GST rolled into the displayed price of goods.
For the same reason, it is better to pay cash at the airport for all of these AIF's than having it rolled into the ticket price.
Tell us that your next movie ticket will be reduced by about 10 cents next time you go to the theater. Also, sellers of resale goods/services will absorb the 1% reduction as profit when they pass it through.
Good experienced governments know full well that businesses will simply take additional profit when they are middle men in tax reductions. Most economists have gone on record as opposing this form of tax reduction as well, and Harpoon is an economist, so he knows he is buying us with our own money of which we'll actually very little. Cheap politics is what we're getting...not cash.