HST pushes plastic bag charge to $0.06

[modano9]

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-p...810/story.html

At least one retailer (SDM) has come forward and said that they will not charge the extra $0.01

[lioncar]

You're the poster child of RFD. Lamenting over an additional penny due to HST.

[Frankie3s]

You're the poster child of RFD. Lamenting over an additional penny due to HST.

Pennies soon becomes dollars. That's how fees always start out, small and then one day they're into $$$.

[LisaB]

The plastic bag was subject to GST/PST before HST came into effect. Read the Toronto by-law.

http://www.toronto.ca/garbage/packag...on/pdf/faq.pdf

And the govt of Ontario made sure stores knew how to charge tax on the bag:

http://www.rev.gov.on.ca/en/taxtips/rst/06.html

[Mr. Robo]

We shouldn't be charged .05 a bag anyways.

[easterclause]

We shouldn't be charged .05 a bag anyways.

Things change. You'll get used to it. If you don't, your kids will. Or their kids.

Progress.

[jamesfitzgibbon]

Things change. You'll get used to it. If you don't, your kids will. Or their kids.

Progress.

it's not progress when the money does not go anywhere except to the retailer.

[easterclause]

it's not progress when the money does not go anywhere except to the retailer.

I'm sure the discussion played itself out in that other thread, I probably have nothing new to add.

[Tyop]

it's not progress when the money does not go anywhere except to the retailer.

I don't understand why people like you complain about the cost of a plastic bag, it's a LAW. If you don't like it, don't buy a plastic bag.

[Akitakara]

I don't understand why people like you complain about the cost of a plastic bag, it's a LAW. If you don't like it, don't buy a plastic bag.

It's only a LAW in Toronto

[Jon Lai]

We shouldn't be charged .05 a bag anyways.

You're right, we should be charged at least 25c a bag, if not a dollar. Because at 5c, people are still consuming them.

[Lucky Ducky]

It's not a LAW, it's a rip-off!

I won't buy plastic bags, use produce bags for anything yucky and carry the groceries out in their damned buggies.

Leave the buggy by the car.

[Kris81]

I find it highly amusing when people complain about:

a) paying for grocery bags
b) the cost of them going up less than a penny.


It's so much easier to just get those reusable bags & keep them in your trunk. What's wrong with you people, seriously.

[yhc]

What's wrong with you people, seriously.

ulcers.

[Blackmajik]

It's only a LAW in Toronto

Unfortunately the law has gotten many companies operating outside of Toronto greedy and have been charging for it or planning to.