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Hot damn, that's low.
GOG would only have done it if they had to, as said by elda it does not benefit them at all.
We have, among many others:
- Income Tax
- Sales Tax (VAT)
- Road Tax
- Council Tax (Tax you pay just to live somewhere)
- Stamp Duty (A tax you pay during the purchase of a new property)
- Inheritance Tax (Inherited a ton of money, or house? Nice! Now time to pay up your tax on it!)
- TV Tax (in the form of a TV "License")
And tons of other taxes too.
I'm no longer interested in buying games. Furthermore, some of the condescending twats in here just canceled any further participation or contribution from me.
Sadly, taxes are a part of life than none of us can (legally) avoid.
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The official bureaucratic line of thinking has always been that if an e-commerce does business with a citizen of a Canadian province/territory, then the appropriate sales tax is expected to be collected and submitted. BC even goes so far as to expect that it's citizens voluntarily declare when they've purchased from places that do not collect the PST and remit the appropriate sales tax themselves. Naturally, this doesn't happen, so they instead force outside businesses to collect and remit instead. It is interprovincial as well as international.
Frankly, I'm surprised that it took this long for the Canadian bureaucrats to force GOG to comply. I don't like sales tax anymore than the next guy but I'm glad GOG did comply, though, as Canadians may have lost legal access to the online retailer if GOG had chosen not to cooperate.
Last edited by Caldathras on 14 November 2023 at 10:22 pm UTC
It has nothing to do with defending anything.
Taxes work in this way in many areas of our lives. You can disagree with it, but you pay taxes every time, even if you go shopping only in the grocery store.
VAT in Poland is 23%, and you probably heard it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom)
On the other hand, customs and shipping costs of games are often much higher than VAT.
I agree that the Steam collection of games for Linux could disappear if Valve is closed. However, GOG doesn't have this issue because they keep our games without limitations: 30 days to download. You can run all games without email codes or keys and back up every game.
Last edited by gbudny on 15 November 2023 at 2:05 am UTC
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Your always welcome to swing by the Weekend Players Club anytime and tell bad dad jokes.......
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If you don't like your taxes I suggest you take that up with your local government.
In case you hadn't noticed, international trade agreements have been catching up with this thing called the "borderless internet". One of the consequences of this is that, in most countries, the customer's location is recognised as the place which has the right to charge vat as much as they deem fit.
I am not sure what the consequences for gog would be if they ignored this, but I am fairly certain that it would not be conductive to their business' continuity. There is a fairly rigorous infrastructure in place to cut people and organisations off from their bank accounts on mere suspicion of financial shenanigans, so I imagine they will also not be kidding around in the case of convicted tax avoidance.
Last edited by emphy on 15 November 2023 at 7:34 am UTC