Bad News for Canadians: Feds To Impose 350% Import Tax on Tobacco

[mikethompson]

From the CBC article:

In an effort to curb the disastrous effects of tobacco, CBC has learned that Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of Health is proposing a 350% import tax on all forms of tobacco coming from the United States and a 150% tax on tobacco from Europe. The Bill which will be tabled before Parliament when it resumes, is expected to pass.

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Increasingly Canadians are buying tobacco products abroad ... to avoid paying Canadian tax which this Bill will seek to eliminate.

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Looks like I'd better get my smoking pipes order in soon!


Link to Article

 

[Davy Jones]

Obviously it has nothing to do with health concerns. It's all about to insure keeping control of domestic revenues on tobacco.

Truck you, Trudeau.

 

[JOHN72]

They also want to eliminate the subject of philosophy in schools and universities here in Spain. Bury the history of humanity, to continue making the same mistakes, century after century.

 

[Casual]

Thank god these people are looking out for me. I might accidentally use my freedom in a way that they don’t like.

 

[bassbug]

The 8 scariest words in the english language.....

"I'm from the government, I'm here to help"

 

[Casual]

Mike, sitting back in his chair in the dock, hat pulled low over his eyes, is keenly feeling the rod for the twinge of a nibble.

(I still made an order, because I think he’s channeling the gestalt of the day. Haha.)

 

[seanv]

From the CBC article:

In an effort to curb the disastrous effects of tobacco, CBC has learned that Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of Health is proposing a 350% import tax on all forms of tobacco coming from the United States and a 150% tax on tobacco from Europe. The Bill which will be tabled before Parliament when it resumes, is expected to pass.

...

Increasingly Canadians are buying tobacco products abroad ... to avoid paying Canadian tax which this Bill will seek to eliminate.

*****

Looks like I'd better get my smoking pipes order in soon!


Link to Article

You're a bad person Mike Thompson LOL

 

[pappymac]

Part of me wonders if this is an April Fool's joke.

The other part says this is something a government would do.

 

[blackpowderpiper]

As has been said, tobacco will never be cheaper and more readily available than right now. This provides me with some solace as I continue to add pounds of tobacco to my cellar. I figure it's just a matter of time until here in the United States, tobacco will be taxed to the point where it is cost prohibitive to obtain. So, I'm gathering my rosebuds while I may. Once it gets ridiculously stupid to buy tobacco, I figure I'll smoke up my cellar while it lasts then just quit.

 

[fireground_piper]

From the CBC article:

In an effort to curb the disastrous effects of tobacco, CBC has learned that Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of Health is proposing a 350% import tax on all forms of tobacco coming from the United States and a 150% tax on tobacco from Europe. The Bill which will be tabled before Parliament when it resumes, is expected to pass.

...

Increasingly Canadians are buying tobacco products abroad ... to avoid paying Canadian tax which this Bill will seek to eliminate.

*****

Looks like I'd better get my smoking pipes order in soon!


Link to Article

You just gave someone, somewhere a new brilliant idea!

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

You can still bring back 200 cigars tax free with a one week visit across the border.
Cigar smokers are laughing, that's easily 4Kg worth of tobacco.
Meanwhile pipe smokers get an exemption worth about twenty times less (200g).
This is another longstanding example where government regulation is aimed at penalizing the working man and letting the rich get off free (cigars classically being a "rich man" hobby).
I'd say the exemption needs to be fixed to make things fair for pipesmokers but it would never be fixed to make anything better so it is what it is.

 

[ashdigger]

I don’t know what is more tragic.

1. I took Mike Thompson seriously

2. I clicked a link Mike Thompson included.

Two fools met one day…..

 

[scloyd]

Hop on this time machine and set the date to 2025 and it will probably be true.

 

[sablebrush52]

Pavlov, ring that bell!

 

[pappymac]

I don’t know what is more tragic.

1. I took Mike Thompson seriously

2. I clicked a link Mike Thompson included.

Two fools met one day…..

I didn't have to click the link.

 

[warren]

Bury the history of humanity, to continue making the same mistakes, century after century.

New generations make the same mistakes because, although they learned from history, they firmly believe they can do whatever "it" is better as they are smarter. That old saw about learning from history omits that. Later generations have knowledge to avoid the mistakes, they are just greedy enough to think they have a better way and can succeed in world domination. control of currency, or whatever. Humans have the same lusts for power and control as the earlier generations. And, certain humans, generation after generation, care nothing about such, are only concerned about rising tobacco tax/prices, the next generation of rock wheel, a virgin for the Spring and such.. We are not as complex as sociologists and such would have us believe. Maslow is simple to understand and, I think, absolutely correct. Some kids we hung with want to dominate the world and others? They just want a Big Mac with fries.

The thread is tongue and cheek but, a response or two tickled an itch.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Amazing as just today NZ govt has announced they will refund any excise tax paid on any domestically purchased tobacco products (receipts required for evidence) that is being sent out of the country…

@mikethompson since the article makes no mention of southern hemisphere tarif zones, it looks like we should set up a supply chain.

 

[mso489]

I'm more the morning person, so in bringing my wife her morning coffee, I told her there was a hen on he front porch, a distinct possibility since there is a coop in the neighborhood. Being a farm girl, she beamed and said it would be our hen, so I quickly admitted it was a lame April Fools joke, and she got a good laugh.

I swallowed this tobacco tax tale because legislators are forever after a revenue stream. Like the hen on he porch, it could be true.

 

[Servant King]

Nah. The lack of a Stanley Cup championship for the last three decades is far worse news.

 

[mikethompson]

I don’t know what is more tragic.

1. I took Mike Thompson seriously

2. I clicked a link Mike Thompson included.

Two fools met one day…..

You should know better than to take me seriously.

I'm generally surprised by how many posted without clicking on the apparent source link LOL.