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Canada has implemented a new tax savings from December to February for some things like taxable groceries, crafts, and gaming physical media. I wanted to get a new Xbox controller and found the best price at Walmart for $55 a week ago. The tax holiday starts today and I now see that the $55 has increased to $62 and change, which is about how much tax I should be saving. Great to see this thinly veiled attempt to help Canadians ( /s - win votes) is just going to be extra profit in the corporations' pockets.

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[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In any reasonable country, that should be illegal. In many places it is

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

In Italy when the government reduced vat on ebooks from 22% to 4% not a single publisher passed the savings to the customer and they even increased the prices

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Name one. Price hikes are not illegal in any country in Europe. Changing prices after selling and other shady stuff is illegal in most European countries on the other hand, but this is not it. If the 55 were on sale before, a "sale" price can be axed as most see fit. This screams coincidence and bad luck to me.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It should be illegal for any store to increase prices by more than 0.5% per month for any product in my opinion.

Even if massive inflation hits they can still increase prices by 6% after a year, but they at least won't be able to immediately increase prices by 10-20% after taxes are lessened or a month before a sale is supposed to start.

[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

All this will do is create a black market full of scalpers who are incentivized to buy the entire stock of a good if the market is willing to pay significantly more.

[–] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An authoritarian, controlled economy will fail. We don't need any more examples to understand why.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You should loose the comma, then i agree with you. An authoritarian controlled economy will fail. A controlled economy is an absolut must.Without rules, that's anarchism. That will fail either. Case in point: The USA. None of the rules are enforced and capitalism gone wild just bought the government outright.

whatbif it's a cash only store that wants all post-tax price to be integers or integers + quarters?