{"id":907,"date":"2011-01-01T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2011-01-01T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:35:02","slug":"interesting-move-by-quebec-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Move by Quebec Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appearently it is the Quebecan provincial government&#8217;s opinion that the recession can be counteracted by higher sales taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Today the provincial sales taxes in Quebec went up 1% to 8.5%. And another 1% hike is scheduled on New Years Day 2012. <\/p>\n<p>I guess they got this brilliant idea from the provincial governments of Ontario, BC and Nova Scotia, who all hiked and\/or extended their taxes in July.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion these additional taxes hinder our recovery. <\/p>\n<p>They burden smaller retailers, who will probably consider this the last nail in their coffin, and force larger retailers to cut expendatures and staff.<\/p>\n<p>It is obviously counterproductive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearently it is the Quebecan provincial government&#8217;s opinion that the recession can be counteracted by higher sales taxes. Today the provincial sales taxes in Quebec went up 1% to 8.5%. And another 1% hike is scheduled on New Years Day 2012. I guess they got this brilliant idea from the provincial governments of Ontario, BC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[756,764,765,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}