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- From: bigm@cs.uq.oz.au (Michael Pilling (Big M is watching you))
- Newsgroups: aus.politics
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Keywords: GST
- Message-ID: <11100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:51:36 GMT
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- In <1ec4hfINNqgg@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> hoconnel@iti.org (Heath O'Connell) writes:
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- > I don't know when he said this. The Coalition is usually at pains to
- >stress that some sort of consumption tax operates in most major economies.
- >Usual examples are Canada and New Zealand.
-
- What they do not point out is that most OECD countries
- have a consumption tax because most OECD countries are a
- member of the EEC. One of the tenants of the EEC was to
- move towards one market, to make things comparable they
- had to have a standardised tax system. Hence
- implementing a consumption tax is a condition of joining
- the EEC.
-
- Michael
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