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Goods and Services Tax (India) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a successor to VAT used in India on the supply of goods and service. Both VAT and GST have the same taxation slabs. It is a comprehensive, multistage, destination-based tax: comprehensive because it has subsumed almost all the indirect taxes except a few state taxes.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [4] Legislation administered by the CRA includes the Income ...
The tax is a 5% tax imposed on the supply of goods and services that are purchased in Canada, except certain items that are either "exempt" or "zero-rated": For tax-free — i.e., "zero-rated" — sales, GST is charged by suppliers at a rate of 0% so effectively there is no GST collected. However, when a supplier makes a zero-rated supply, it ...
In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia—entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the "blended sales tax" (renamed to "harmonized sales tax") which would combine the 7% federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces; as part of this project, the PST portion ...
Inward transactions: No charge to be levied. Outward transactions: For transactions of ₹ 200,000 (US$2,400) to ₹ 500,000 (US$6,000): up to ₹ 25 (30¢ US) per transaction plus applicable time varying charges (₹ 1 (1.2¢ US) to ₹ 5 (6.0¢ US)); total not exceeding ₹ 30 (36¢ US) per transaction, (+ GST).
The GST Act came into effect on 2 October 2011, and expanded the tax to all sectors of the economy. The Act imposed a GST at the rate of 3.5% from 2 October 2011 to 31 December 2011 and 6% from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012. The GST rate on “tourism goods and services” increased to 8% on 1 January 2013 and to 12% on 1 November 2014.
A value-added tax (VAT or goods and services tax (GST), general consumption tax (GCT)), is a consumption tax that is levied on the value added at each stage of a product's production and distribution. VAT is similar to, and is often compared with, a sales tax. VAT is an indirect tax because the consumer who ultimately bears the burden of the ...
The former British Columbia Provincial Sales Tax (BC PST) was introduced on 1 July 1948 as part of the Social Service Tax Act. [1] It was initially set at 3%, [2] but later rose to 7%. The PST was collected on most goods and some services. The main difference between the national Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the BC PST was its taxable base ...