Doing restorations across Canadian border?

[camarojoe]

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So, you're saying they could be taxed twice? They could drive down, pay sales tax on the parts in the States...and yet you'd have to pay taxes again when you cross the border back to Canuckville, for what? Property tax? Can't be sales tax, the goods were sold in the US so that goes to Uncle Sam...could Canada really charge a tax for not doing anything?

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Totally off subject, but think how much in taxes is paid on cars right here in the USA...EVERY time a car changes hands that same car is taxed... If a single car is bought and sold enough times, "the man" can easily end up with as much in sales taxes on the car as its original purchase price when owner #1 initially BOUGHT it... I always thought that was quite the racket, and that sales tax should only be charged on new cars, when they are first sold to customer #1...after that you're paying tax on something that was already taxed once (or twice or 3 times!) Wishful thinking I know, but it seems silly that the sale of the same car can be taxed over and over again every time its transferred to a different person.

[Chevy454]

I agree, Joe...I've griped about that for years...used to be, in Arkansas you only paid sales tax on new cars...but I believe they changed that a couple years back.

[Lynn]

A while back a guy (who shall remain nameless) in Canada bought some parts on ebay from a guy (who shall remain me). He asked that I mark each box "antique auto parts value less than $20 US". I told him he would be out of luck if there were a damage claim, but he was willing to take the chance.

At the time I had no idea why.

Boy, was Eric Cartman right.

Lynn

[Jeff Murphy]

[retengw31]

I got hassled bringing a coupla bumpers back from Ontario to Detroit by the US Customs guy. He was middle Eastern descent and barely spoke English. I couldn't understand what he was asking half the time and he got pissed at me when I asked him to talk slower.

Told him the bumpers were in there when I went up earlier in the day and no one asked about them then. He finally let me go. Wouldn't even look at my passport (which I did have with me).

You'd think they'd have more important things to be concerned with than an individual with some old car parts. Then again, though, maybe I was being "profiled"...???

[Canucklehead]

Don't you hate it when people of ethnic origin are put in a position of assistance to the general public?. Not that im being racist it's just agrivating when these people can barely speak english!. Now that alot of companys are using india as an information centre it makes it hard to get your point across.

[Mr70]

Quoi?

[John Brown]

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You'd think they'd have more important things to be concerned with than an individual with some old car parts. Then again, though, maybe I was being "profiled"...???

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Dave, no, they didn't want to see your profile.

Come to think about it, they wouldnt want to see mine either.

[retengw31]

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You'd think they'd have more important things to be concerned with than an individual with some old car parts. Then again, though, maybe I was being "profiled"...???

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Dave, no, they didn't want to see your profile.

Come to think about it, they wouldnt want to see mine either.

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I thought it'd be ironic if I ended up in Gitmo with girls panties on my head for trying to get back into the United States through a Mid east customs official. You pay good money for that in Vegas, I hear.