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Switch from HST to PST consumed, exhausted B.C. bureaucrats
Vancouver :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Exuberant British Columbians celebrated the power of direct democracy in August 2011 when they voted to kill the harmonized sales tax, but in the windowless, bunker-like rooms in the Ministry of Finance building across the street from the B.C.
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Vaughn Palmer: Does the HST have one last humiliation in store for the B.C. Liberals?
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Liberals hoping for an end to their government's self-inflicted miseries with the harmonized sales tax, the latest news out of the Ministry of Finance is not encouraging. The ministry reckons that some 130,000 retailers need to register to begin
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B.C. legislature to lay HST to rest, discuss budget as May election nears
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Premier Christy Clark's Liberal government returns to the legislature this week poised to lay to rest the three-year-plus HST nightmare before hitting the campaign trail seeking a fourth consecutive term in office. Legislation that finally kills the
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Can We Stop Talking About the HST Now?
Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Provincial budgets have been on a roller coaster of deficits, due in no small part to HST policy shifting so radically, so quickly...Like the proverbial girlfriend we just can't seem to get over, the Harmonized Sales Tax has dominated British
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Productivity: How Canada can hedge against a plunge in oil prices
Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago
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A major drop in the price of oil could lower the standard of living in Canada, so the federal and provincial governments should increase productivity to make economic growth less dependent on commodity prices, says Peter Jarrett, head of Canadian
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Franchise industry expected to grow as U.S. brands venture north
Vancouver :: Canada | 5 months ago
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Small Business Summit "At some point you need an experienced executive and several other key staff who can cost you a total of about $1-million in compensation. If you can't afford them, you stay stalled in a mom and pop business," he says. It Starts
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Humpuss debt settlement murky despite approval
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 6 months ago
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According to the company, approximately $52.8 million of the liabilities were tied to the HST liquidation. Cosimo Borelli and Jason Kardachi, HST's court-appointed liquidators, $10 million in cash within one year and $42.8 million in convertible
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Marijuana activists in B.C. determined to follow in Colorado's footsteps
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Story Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, waters young plants in a grow room, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Seattle The Associated Press video A man exhales after smoking marijuana in a pipe at
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Hubble captures image of galaxy closest to Big Bang
Both amateur and professional photographers must have dabbled with their camera’s exposure time, trying, under low light or complete dark, to get as much light as possible in order to take nighttime pictures. Of course, the time that the
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Indian officials look to Canada for tax advice
Ottawa :: Canada | 8 months ago
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While the Indian public servants are learning about the details of Canada's tax collection system, the finance ministers of Indian states are keenly interested in the politics. After touring the halls of Parliament Hill for meetings with senior
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