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Thursday, July 08, 2010

New Eco Fees Catching Consumers by Surprise


'Checking her receipt as she left a downtown Canadian Tire, Chris Colorado noticed a new charge.

Her $1.99 bottle of dish soap was accompanied by a 13-cent “eco fee.”

The levy for thousands of new products, from pharmaceuticals to fire extinguishers, quietly came into effect July 1, the same day as the harmonized sales tax.'

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Posted by DotConnector at 08:37

2 comments:

  1. st1d9 July 2010 at 02:26

    “It’s not a tax. The government does not see one penny of it. It all goes to the stewardship councils to make sure that all of these materials do not end up in our landfill sites,” the minister said.

    Hmm, weren't the stewardship councils -- set up by the govt? :(

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  2. Anonymous9 July 2010 at 14:52

    The Stewardship Councils were set up by industry.

    If you look at the fee schedule (http://www.stewardshipontario.ca/sites/default/files/docs/2010_2011_cmhsw_rules.pdf), dishwashing products is an Irritant and subject to a $0.20 per 100 L. This store has chosen to use the Corrosive price of $0.13 per 1 L.

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