mhicken August 26th, 2010
Malcolm Parry’s column in the Vancouver Sun today refers to my work on wine law & marketing issues today. If you want further information on legal issues related to the wine industry, you should check out my WineLaw.ca website and if you would like to help try to change our wine laws and taxation, please join us at the FreetheWine.ca website.
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mhicken June 24th, 2010
I have revised my BC Liquor Store Wine Markup Calculators to reflect the changes to markup and taxation structure that will occur as a result of the introduction of the HST on July 1, 2010. You can now run various prices through the calculators for both before-HST and after-HST estimations. If you do that, you will notice that the shelf prices will generally stay the same … however, the LDB markup will go up and the combined federal/provincial sales tax will go down. These issues are covered in more detail at my companion site, www.winelaw.ca.
Tags: alcohol, bc, BC liquor stores, bcldb, LDB, liquor, liquor distribution branch, markup, taxation, taxes, wine