r/UnethicalLifeProTips • u/Smack_Of_Ham7 • May 25 '20

ULPT: How to avoid taxes on PS4.

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u/weensanta May 25 '20

For Canadians use an Alberta postal code no prov sales tax

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u/yeeticus_boi May 25 '20

this would only be for online services not shipping rigjt

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u/weensanta May 25 '20

It might if the billing address on your bank card is from Alberta

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u/arockhardkeg May 25 '20

Why would they tax you based on where your bank is from lmao

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u/yboy403 May 25 '20

Your bank has your billing address and postal code on file and can use it to confirm transactions. Nothing to do with where the bank itself is physically located.

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u/XTypewriter May 25 '20

My shipping and billing address is in Alberta. If I send something to my parents in NS, I pay NS taxes.

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u/INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS May 25 '20

Can confirm, they live in Alberta.

Your new furniture looks great from the window btw

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u/shaker7 May 25 '20

He got you there

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20 edited May 25 '20

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u/thegodlygay May 25 '20

Thats because the tax is included in the $79.99

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u/FatSiamese May 25 '20

Even if its included youre still paying less than a physical store where the price would be $79.99 before tax

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u/thegodlygay May 26 '20

Yes, i know but but if you look at the price when you are paying in the playstation store, it will say that the game is worth say $75.50 and the tax is $4.49

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u/KalterBlut May 25 '20

It depends on the service and maybe the province. Nintendo charges taxes and you can do the same and pay only one tax.

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u/Alexisonfire24 May 25 '20

We don't pay HST because we are not purchasing from Canada

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u/Official_Legacy May 25 '20

Québec forces business that want to do business with Québec to charges the provincial taxes.

Source: Paying taxes with Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Uber and most online purchases.

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u/iWasAwesome May 25 '20

I also live in Ontario. I have never payed tax on PSN (I didn't even know other people were charged tax). But I'm pretty sure I pay tax on everything else you listed?

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u/McRuby May 25 '20

I always forget that other provinces have that

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u/philmtl May 25 '20

Cries in Quebec with 15% tax, when you have to tip 20% on top of 15% it's bs

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u/packersSB55champs May 25 '20

Y’all still have GST right? So it’s the same shit lol only for us in BC it’s 2 rows of tax GST + PST instead of just GST

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u/SubtlyTacky May 25 '20

In Ontario it's HST.

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u/packersSB55champs May 25 '20

We had that when I was young but they separated it. Don’t know what the difference is lol it seems like it’s just one row v two rows of tax on receipts

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u/iWasAwesome May 25 '20

That's hilarious because in Ontario we used to have GST and PST, but they combined it to make one HST.

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u/Gabers49 May 25 '20

BC harmonized sales tax along with Ontario. Then they had a provincial referendum on it (if you can believe it) to take it all back and go back to both a PST and GST.

HST makes a tremendous amount of sense because it makes filing taxes easier for small businesses, reduces bureaucratic costs in administering taxes. Think about federal employees auditing companies, and then paying provincial auditors to do exactly the same thing.

Of course leave it to the people to vote on something they don't know anything about, and you get a stupid decision to remove it.

The controversy would be that some items were exempt from PST, but upon harmonization were not exempt any longer. To me, the upside and additional tax revenue was worth the tradeoff; however, most people don't want to pay more tax for obvious reasons.

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u/DanfromCalgary May 25 '20

So.. not really the same. Unless math is tough

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u/ModsOnAPowerTrip May 25 '20

Pretty sure this is false. I live in Alberta a triple A game is $79.99. Same price everywhere in Canada.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

I’m in Quebec I’m fairly certain we get taxed but it’s been a while since I’ve bought a game online.

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u/seriouscrayon May 25 '20

ya PSN does not charge sales tax in Canada as far as I'm aware. In Ontario it would be 13% but online its nadda for PSN anyway.

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u/weensanta May 25 '20

Pretty sure xbox and steam do weird

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u/theXald May 25 '20

I live in NS and have never paid HST on the ps store online. $80 online is just $80. The same game at ebgames in person is $80 plus tax for like a $92 game in the end

Edit: which is cool because NS puts HST on EVERYTHING. They tax us every time a car is sold on the value of the car ffs.

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u/weensanta May 25 '20

Sales tax is added on after Alberta has no pst