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- From: rakesh@ecr.mu.oz.au (Rakesh DESAI)
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Message-ID: <9232215.8916@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: GST
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:33:52 GMT
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- In article <dyfl.721973757@munagin>, dyfl@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel Y Lam) writes:
- > rakesh@mame.mu.OZ.AU (Rakesh DESAI) writes:
- >
- > >e.g. If a ballpen worth a dollar requires 4 stages of manufacture and
- > >each stage you charge 15 % tax, will not ballpen cost
- > >1.15 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 1.15 = 1.75$?
- >
- > No. The GST is levied on the value added at each stage, not on the
- > total value. So the whole thing is taxes at a rate of 15%, no matter
- > how many stages it goes through. At least that's the theory.
-
- In this case also it will be higher tax. I will expand on my above
- example of a ballpen worth a dollar. Suppose 4 stages of value addition
- hypothetically has value addition of 50c, 20c, 20c and 10c. If each
- stages are taxed it will work out as follows
- 50c * 1.15 = 57.5c
- 57.5 +20c = 77.5 * 1.15 = 89.125c
- 89.125c + 20c = 109.125 * 1.15 = 125.49375c
- 125.49375 + 10c = 135.49375 * 1.15 = 155.8178c
-
- i.e. slightly better than 1.75$ but a single ballpen worth a dollar will
- actually cost 1.56$. By any other permutation it will cost less I guess
- depending upon the value additions, which I agree. But it will be far
- far more than a simple figure which Dr. Hewson said about 15 % tax. It
- might be that I got it wrong or Dr Hewson hasn't done his homework.
-
- rakesh
- >
- > --
- > Daniel Lam
- > Melbourne, Australia
- >
- > In my opinion, the opinions expressed here are my personal opinions.
-
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