Not to get too far off topic, but it's assumed the cost of doing business is passed on to your customer. So whether you pay $40 or $44.80 for a month of cell service, your customer is ultimately paying for your (business) cell bill.
It's a lot easier to manage than the old PST days, where if you sold paper towel you'd buy it tax-free from your supplier and send in the tax you collected when you sold it, except if you took a few rolls from inventory to use in your busindss, you had to track those and pay tax on them because you were the end user. Meanwhile I (not being a seller of paper towel) just paid tax to the supplier. And the interpretations could get really complicated, trying to decide what was being incorporated into the product you were selling, and what was being used by you to produce the product. I like GST/HST much better. 🙂
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