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- From: dyfl@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel Y Lam)
- Subject: Re: GST - double tax?
- Message-ID: <dyfl.722140854@munagin>
- Keywords: GST
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:40:54 GMT
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- rakesh@ecr.mu.oz.au (Rakesh DESAI) writes:
- >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
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- No. 15% on the value added.
-
- So, stage 1 will attract a tax of 50c * 0.15
- stage 2 20c * 0.15
- stage 3 20c * 0.15
- and stage 4 10c * 0.15
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- So 15% overall.
- --
- Daniel Lam
- Melbourne, Australia
-
- In my opinion, the opinions expressed here are my personal opinions.
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