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- From: suter@fawlty8.eng.monash.edu.au (Mr D. Suter)
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.060908.9486@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: GST
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:09:08 GMT
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- In article <9232215.8916@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> rakesh@ecr.mu.oz.au (Rakesh DESAI) writes:
- >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$?
- >>
- >> No. The GST is levied on the value added at each stage, not on the
- >> total value. So the whole thing is taxes at a rate of 15%, no matter
- >> how many stages it goes through. At least that's the theory.
- >
- >In this case also it will be higher tax. I will expand on my above
- >example of a ballpen worth a dollar. Suppose 4 stages of value addition
- >hypothetically has value addition of 50c, 20c, 20c and 10c. If each
- >stages are taxed it will work out as follows
- >50c * 1.15 = 57.5c
- >57.5 +20c = 77.5 * 1.15 = 89.125c
-
- Only the 20c is taxed - i.e. the value *added* (c.f. VAT in Britain -
- specifically Value Added Tax) The fact that the final (overall tax)
- rate is still 15% is no more than the simple distributive law of multiplication
- over addition.
-
- >89.125c + 20c = 109.125 * 1.15 = 125.49375c
- >125.49375 + 10c = 135.49375 * 1.15 = 155.8178c
- >
- >i.e. slightly better than 1.75$ 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.
-
- Rest assured, it's the former. At least on this score.
-
- d.s.
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- David Suter - Dept. of Electrical and
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- Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia
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