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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: GST Deferral
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.155044.12688@bnr.ca>
- Keywords: GST, Money, economics
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1993Jan26.203509.24848@csi.uottawa.ca> <C1HsKv.257@frumious.uucp> <1993Jan27.053008.19293@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:50:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.053008.19293@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >If someone feels that it is possible to as a NET result benefit from
- >deferrment of GST in the LONG run, without there being a corresponding
- >NET benefit to the government, then I suggest that they show
- >NUMERICALLY an example of this.
- >
- >I'm not absolutely certain of it, but I don't think that it's possible
- >for an individual to benefit from deferring GST without the government
- >also benefiting in a corresponding way.
-
- Hint: an RRSP is a better deal for the individual deferring
- taxable income than the government.
-
- If the GST were not deferable (through deferring consumption),
- then it would effectively be a flat income tax.
-
- Example:
-
- Interest rate: 10%.
- GST: 7%.
- Lump sum: y dollars.
-
- Scenario 1:
- Deferral period: m years.
- At the end of m years, you hold (y * (1.1 ** m)), on
- which you pay 7%, leaving 0.93 * y * (1.1 **m).
-
- Scenario 2:
- GST as a tax on income (deferring consumption doesn't defer tax).
- Investment period: m years.
- At the end of m years, you hold (0.93 * y) * (1.093 ** m),
- since you paid tax on the initial lump sum and then on
- the income stream.
-
- The NPV of the tax paid on the initial lump
- sum in Scenario 2 is equal to the NPV of the total tax paid in
- Scenario 1. The NPV of your holdings at the end of Scenario
- 2 is clearly less than the NPV of your holdings at the end
- of Scenario 1. Hence, you benefit from deferal, and the
- government suffers.
-
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