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Originally Posted by Fuzz
No, that's the honest mistake part which the business immediately rectified, apologized for and corrected.. The key part is the minister stating it is "disappointing" that a business is choosing to pass the cost directly on to the customer, and that by stating on a bill that the business is being misleading. How TF is that misleading? It seems the government position is that it is up to business to eat the tax, not pass it on.
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I do find it misleading in that they made it a line item. If I see a line item tax on an invoice, my expectation is that portion of the invoice is being remitted directly to the government - for example the GST. You've commented yourself that it is impossible to know the exact cost of the carbon tax, so why give the impression that they know the exact value by making it a specific line item. Liquor taxes are an exact amount and they aren't itemized on my liquor store receipt, why would the carbon tax be?