>The way the tax is aplied depend on the place you "consume" the goods.
>It is not a "resident" tax.
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>If an visitor came to Canada and buy a hot-dog, a t-shirt or concert ticket, he have to pay the taxes because the goods are "consumed" here in the country.
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>On the other side, if the same person command a t-shirt or a software online in a canadian site and the goods are shipped (or downloaded)outside of the country, there is no taxes - the goods are not "consumed" in Canada.
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>For a service, there is no physical goods that was shipped outside of the country. So the gov assume that the service was provided "in" the country of the server - in Canada - and the taxes must be charged.
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>If UT was a software, Michel may not have to charge taxes, but it's a service and he don't have the choice. May be he can release a "UT browser" and sell the software instead of membership to trick the law and avoid the taxes...
The Canadian Tax dep. also do not seem to recognize that the
content of the UT is the intellectual property of the (international) members.
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