The other good thing about increasing GST would be the additional amounts received by people visiting Canada.
Anecdotally, it seems most major tourist destinations have high GST/VAT or hotel and short term rental taxes. Hawaii had proposed to bring their taxes on short term rentals up to 33% from the current 18% that hotels and rentals are charged now.
I'd be in favor of bringing GST up to 10% and reducing personal taxes or increasing personal exemptions to make up for it. GST rebates I'm sure would also increase with a higher GST rate so the working poor should likely come out ahead with a change like that.
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