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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:If you thought your rate increase was a bit steep, think of the people in Clutha being hit with 60% increases.In particular Milton, Waihola, Clinton and Tapanui will all get rises of more than 60% for a typical residence. Several accounts are hitting the $5k mark with an average Milton household paying $4891 (up from $3021).<a href="https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.odt.co.nz%2Fregions%2Fsouth-otago%2Fproposed-rates-rises-still-ungodly-mayor-says" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.odt.co.nz%2Fregions%2Fsouth-otago%2Fproposed-rates-rises-still-ungodly-mayor-says</a><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NZ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Rates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rates</a>

C.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Etsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etsy</a>:1. They blocked my account, insisting I add my "taxpayer ID" to my account. 2. I don't have a problem with that, *but* when you do so, Etsy stops collecting and remitting Canada's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GST</a> and/or <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HST</a> from buyers. It's now Your Problem. However... 3. They do not provide a way to let sellers add the taxes to their prices/transactions. You just have to take it out of your item price. Which means... 4. Because <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tax</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rates</a> vary across Canada, from 5% to 15%, you would have to set your price differently in each <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/province" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#province</a> or <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/territory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#territory</a> to account for it. But ... 5. Etsy does not provide a way to do that. So ... 6. You have to add 15% to your prices, charge everyone that, and then back-calculate the "real" item price differently for each province and territory, for every sale. Which is bad enough, but ... 7. Etsy does keep collecting the *<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PST</a>* from buyers in 3 of the provinces. So it effectively charges PST on the GST/HST you've included in the prices. Back-calculating from *that* is more painful. And you're lying about the amount of tax paid on the receipts Etsy generates, which is a *<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a>*.TL;DR: Etsy makes sales impossibly difficult, and makes you complicit in a crime while doing so. Fun.2/x

Chuck DarwinAnother Good Inflation Report:Inflation Has Been Beaten, A Soft Landing Achieved- The main gauge of inflation, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Consumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Consumer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Price" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Price</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Index" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Index</a>, came in at 0.2% for July and 2.9% over the past 12 months. Food prices have only increased ✅1.1% over the past year -- 💪🏽far below the wage gains of workers. Over the past six months inflation has averaged 2.0% -- ⭐️which is the target rate the Fed has been shooting for. As we’ve been saying here these last few weeks inflation, a global phenomenon, has been tamed here in the US and a <a href="https://c.im/tags/soft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soft</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/landing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landing</a> achieved. It is time for the Fed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/cut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cut</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/interest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interest</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rates</a> and start easing up on consumers. <a href="https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-has-been-tamed-and-we-need" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-has-been-tamed-and-we-need</a>

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