Really......... does any of this matter to the average buyer?
I don't think so......... buyers only care that their final cost is way beyond they have been used to paying.
The rest of it is purely academic................ and no one cares all that much about which part of the bill goes where.
I would think that it does matter to many buyers.I would like to know how much money is going to the gov't and how much is going to whoever is doing the brokerage. That's why many people don't use couriers for international mail as the brokerage charges are too expensive. On other sites they have wanted to charge me 13% hst which really annoys me since we don't have provincial tax in Alberta. I don't usually buy from those sites unless the item is a fantastic deal.
Also, If a seller is buying to resell, they can get back the gst paid on the ITC form. It's difficult to do that without knowing how much tax was charged. Obviously a person can do it backwards but there's no guarantee that it is accurate and tax is charged on the brokerage fee as well but if you don't know what the brokerage fee is...
how do you know what the tax was.
If af is correct and it wouldn't surprise me if he is.. than I guess that it will never be broken down.
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