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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I assume it is still the case that Canada's govt levies taxes at the wholesale level. The US govt does not.
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Yep in Canada they get screwed twice. Once by the province(PST - provincial sales tax) and then again by their wonderful federal gov't(GST get this goods AND SERVICE tax -- they LOVE their taxes). Which IIRC is a total of 14% in Ont at least.
From what I know of pricing in most other countries though, the list price already has their VAT baked in, usually 20+%. Not sure if Australlia does the VAT thing or sales tax like Canada/USA.
...and oh yeah, these things ARE made in PRC, and if you hunted around you could dig up the ODM, but apparently unlike MANY other small time ebook sellers in NA, Kobo is actually doing their own firmware v. contracting the ODM to slightly customize their stock firmware...