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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
A number of publishers sellling ebooks on amazon.com to Canadian addresses charge Canadian taxes bundled into the price. This has been going on and is documented in Amazon.com's fineprint for over a year.
That's why you find things like a book being $13.99 at Kobo and (now) amazon.ca but $15.99 at amazon.com. The final price is still the same (+ or - a few cents) but the Canadian based sites add taxes at the checkout; amazon.com, when it charges Canadian taxes, adds them into the price.
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Sales tax is only 10% in my province (including Federal and Provincial). Frankly $11.99 to $20.07 does not add up tax-wise and it varies across publishers and even within publishers. It's adding a lot of other stuff as well as the tax. Oh, wait we're talking the manufacturers tax that was supposed to be gone when the GST (Federal) went in. Or maybe it's the not paying attention tax or the government needs a new F-35 tax.
I stick with one of my previous posts that I'm shocked that Canada taxes literacy so much.
As far as Amazon.ca goes. I'm not sure what I should do on that. I think I'll just backup my reading purchases and swap myself out to Canada and see if that looks better in the end. I'm pretty close to ditching my Kindle anyway given that 77% of this year's reading was paper and another 6% was public domain. Only 17% of my reading was puchased e-books.