Coming Dec. 14, the federal government is going to do away with GST. Where I work we’ve got to go through our entire inventory and reset the taxes on everything we sell. With more than 100,000 different products to do it right requires a lot of planning.
But there’s no plan on how to do this. We’ve only been told that “store employee schedules may need to be adjusted to support the upcoming changes”. No additional hours given, no training provided, just “adjust” to the new workload. Corporate only offers half measures and hand-waving to get all this done. Which inevitably means we’ll just be working harder for the same pay.
It doesn’t help that nobody seems to know what does and doesn’t count. Granola products are included, but what that means isn’t clear. Intermediate products may be included in the tax holiday or maybe not. The confusion won’t end there. We’ll have to re-add the GST back in next year. Again, with no time to do it properly.
So, in the end, it’s two months of slightly lower taxes to boost sales of Christmas-trees, jigsaw puzzles, and children’s diapers? This is what will set the Canadian economy on the right course? No half measures will fix what’s wrong with Canadian capitalism and I don’t have time for it.
