I have a request for the B.C. Liberal party as we get closer to the day when we go back to the PST. The federal government and its GST has always had a level under which no tax is collected by Canada's smallest businesses.
Any business that does less than $30,000 per year does not have to collect and remit any tax for the government.
If the Liberal party of B.C. really cares about small business (as it always claims to do), I suggest they adopt this same policy.
Obviously, it makes sense, as small business finds it onerous enough making a go of it without all the extra work and hardship of collecting tax and increasing their prices to the public to do so. Hopefully, you seriously consider this and implement it as you make final your arrangements.
Kevin McCarthy
Victoria
