From the Department of Finance, we have: Marlene Légaré, senior chief, tax policy branch, sales tax division; Brian Willis, senior chief, sales tax division, tax policy branch; Rainer Nowak, chief, tax policy branch, sales tax division; Melanie Chin, tax policy officer, tax policy branch, sales tax division; Lalith Kottachchi, senior tax policy officer, tax policy branch, sales tax division; Dean Beyea, tariffs officer, international trade and finance branch; Gérard Lalonde, chief of business and property income, tax legislation division, tax policy branch; Robert Wong, legislative counsel, tax counsel division; and Ken Medd, sen ...[+++]ior tax policy officer, first nations taxation section, intergovernmental tax policy division, tax policy branch.

‘indirect taxes’ means sales, excise, turnover, value added, franchise, stamp, transfer, inventory and equipment taxes, border taxes and all taxes other than direct taxes and import charges,

For example, improved harmonisation of national numbering regimes on the basis of the current framework could help European manufacturers and retailers by enabling sales, after-sales and customer enquiry services over a single Europe-wide number, while the better functioning of socially useful numbers (e.g. 116 numbers used for hotlines for missing children) will benefit citizens.

‘indirect taxes’ means sales, excise, turnover, value added, franchise, stamp, transfer, inventory and equipment taxes, border taxes and all taxes other than direct taxes and import charges,

The finance minister offered to replace the provincial sales taxes in the maritimes and the GST with a single 15 per cent sales tax. In the maritime provinces, the total of both the PST and the GST averages 19 per cent.

This national sales tax would be administered by the Canada Revenue Commission; as a result, if the government of Quebec decides it does not want this second version of the GST, it will be forced to accept it because it is said clearly in the speech from the throne that if a province wishes to opt out of this new national program, it could do so only if it proposed to apply exactly the same program with the same criteria or equivalences in the province (1130) In other words, if the federal government decides to create a new national ...[+++]sales tax that is not wanted in Quebec because the Quebec government wishes to control its tax base, what goods and services to tax or not to tax, it will not be able to do so because it will be forced to accept the new tax, a majority of provinces having decided otherwise in its place.