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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Vs a PST on almost everything they buy?
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Except a PST can be specifically targeted at goods, whereas a carbon tax is a blanket tax on everything and probably some goods will have multiple cost increases attached to them due to the number of steps they need to go through to get the market.
With a PST you can literally mirror the practices of the GST and make it non applicable to things like agricultural products (food) etc.
And a PST is fixed and predictable and more importantly audit able. A Carbon tax is not fixed or predictable and auditing its effects on the market is going to be a nightmare.