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Not sure why people down vote factual statements if they are wrong and not comment a correction. I can confirm that Canada does have different tax rates across

Not sure why people down vote factual statements if they are wrong and not comment a correction. I can confirm that Canada does have different tax rates across the provinces across all types of taxes: corporate, income, sales, etc. Even at the local level, Canada doesn't have municipality based taxes so to speak but you can certainly find fees charged only in that city which is of course a type of tax. For example, Toronto used to force retailers to charge for plastic bags even though it wasn't collected by the city. This bylaw was removed in 2012.

gamblor956 5y ago
Thanks, not to worried about the downvotes for factually true statements. There are plenty of people on HN who downvote statements that don't comport with their imaginary view of the world. PWC's summary on Swiss tax system includes 2 of the cantonal tax systems: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/switzerland/individual/taxes-on-personal-income https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/switzerland/individual/taxes-on... India does not have state income taxes, but they had wide variation with respect to state indirect taxes (which was eliminated in 2017 and replaced with a standardized federally-run GST), and the states are still free to impose more than a dozen other taxes, including land-use taxes, including a number of taxes not levied anywhere else in the world, such as agricultural estate taxes. Canada's provinces have their own property tax and income tax rates (for example, compare Alberta, Sasketchewan, Quebec, and British Columbia rates), and generally also set their own PST rates (provincial sales tax, when combined with federal GST it is referred to as HST).
- spikengineer 5y ago
  Since 2017, India has abolished state VAT by a constitutional amendment. Now there is a single consumption tax system called the GST across all states. A GST council collects all taxes and devolves receipts to states as per law. The income tax is also devolved as per law.

gamblor956 5y ago

Thanks, not to worried about the downvotes for factually true statements. There are plenty of people on HN who downvote statements that don't comport with their imaginary view of the world. PWC's summary on Swiss tax system includes 2 of the cantonal tax systems: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/switzerland/individual/taxes-on-personal-income https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/switzerland/individual/taxes-on... India does not have state income taxes, but they had wide variation with respect to state indirect taxes (which was eliminated in 2017 and replaced with a standardized federally-run GST), and the states are still free to impose more than a dozen other taxes, including land-use taxes, including a number of taxes not levied anywhere else in the world, such as agricultural estate taxes. Canada's provinces have their own property tax and income tax rates (for example, compare Alberta, Sasketchewan, Quebec, and British Columbia rates), and generally also set their own PST rates (provincial sales tax, when combined with federal GST it is referred to as HST).

spikengineer 5y ago
Since 2017, India has abolished state VAT by a constitutional amendment. Now there is a single consumption tax system called the GST across all states. A GST council collects all taxes and devolves receipts to states as per law. The income tax is also devolved as per law.