On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Max Flämig wrote:
duty fees for canada: 18 % of value of goods + sales tax (depending on region - about 5% --> so 23 %)
Are you sure it depends on the region ? Looks like only the federal sales tax is applicable. Then is the tax cumulative on the duty ? That would make 5% + 18% + 5%*18% = 23,9%.
If the applicable sales tax does depend on region, then for Québec it would be 12,875% and together with the duty that is 12,875% + 18% + 12,875%*18% = 33,1925%.
That is unless I'm unaware of other possible cases in the applicability of taxes per region...
btw the €/cad rate right now is the best ever, at 0,795 ! at last christmas it was only 0,66 ... that's quite a difference.
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