Which item do you think is the bigger luxury?

[cytoglycerine]

Hello all!



I took a trip to the grocery store today to pick up a few items, and I noticed something that I thought was worth a chuckle - My toilet paper was subject to regular sales tax, yet my croutons for my Caesar salad were tax exempt! Seems as though my province's govt believes croutons are more of a necessity than toilet paper is!



I mean, sure, we gotta eat to live...But I think having a clean tooshie is more important - and more worthy of a tax-exemption - than a salad topping. What say you?

[thyme4change]

No grocery items are taxed. Paper products are. It isn't a luxury tax. The worst TP in the world is still taxed, but your caviar, steak and lobster isn't.

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

LOL... maybe they thought you could use tree leaves instead of TP but there is no substitute for croutons?

[cytoglycerine]

Apr 14, 2011 18:25:55 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

No grocery items are taxed. Paper products are. It isn't a luxury tax. The worst TP in the world is still taxed, but your caviar, steak and lobster isn't.

Perhaps where you live no grocery/food items are taxed. Where I live, grocery items that are not considered essentials (like pop & chips, for example) DO have sales tax on them because they are considered as luxury items. Essentially, this means my province's govt has decided that TP is a luxury, but croutons are not.

[hoops902]

Apr 14, 2011 18:32:04 GMT -5 @cytoglycerine said:

Apr 14, 2011 18:25:55 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

No grocery items are taxed. Paper products are. It isn't a luxury tax. The worst TP in the world is still taxed, but your caviar, steak and lobster isn't.

Perhaps where you live no grocery/food items are taxed. Where I live, grocery items that are not considered essentials (like pop & chips, for example) DO have sales tax on them because they are considered as luxury items. Essentially, this means my province's govt has decided that TP is a luxury, but croutons are not.

No, it means they don't consider things like soda and chips to be "groceries". They probably have a distinction between "groceries" and "junk food". Taxing your TP has nothing to do with considering it a luxury.

[cytoglycerine]

Hmmm...Well now that just takes ALL the fun and funny out of the situation. I had a good giggle thinking croutons were a bigger "necessity" than TP.

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

Cyto,

You are in a country full of trees, right? Tp is a luxury... ;D ;D

[cytoglycerine]

Audrey - lol yep lots of trees...Guess they do want us to use leaves!! Haha ;D

[thyme4change]

Hoops has got it.

They also tax you on the chicken that is roasted at the deli, but not for the sliced turkey that is cooked and in the lunch meat section. So, yes, their definitions are weird.

[DVM gone riding]

WA state doesn't tax "non prepared food" but it tried to start taxing pop and candy bars. They really screwed up trying to define candy but leave bake goods alone, the result wait... Snickers are taxed but nestle crunch wasn't!! Want to know why...nestle crunch has rice in it and anything containing a grain based product was designated baked good, didn't matter how much!! But voters overturned the whole thing and we are back to taxing TP but not "groceries" (I was going to say food but prepared food is actually taxed higher then everything else in certain areas)

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

If they don't get you coming, they get you going.... ;D

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

If they don't get you coming, they get you going.... ;D