Internet catalogues are great.Even though YOU aren't paying tax, the seller IS.Plus if he is a shrewd bussiness man, he has hidden an amount in the price representing the tax you would have paid on the sale amount(this assuming that the seller does not live on a reservation somewhere)He knows that your not paying tax, but he is.
Now lets caculate quickly.Lets say you buy for 100 per month on the Res.depending on what your buying, lets say 10Percent should got to taxes, to make it easy to caculate.So your looking at $1320 dollars that would have gone to taxes,per year, just on your own purchases.I figure that there is probably a million people at least who do the same thing.So now your looking at $1,320,000.00 per year of taxes that was robbed from me and all the other canadians who pay thier taxes even though they dont like it.This is a vastly underestimated calculation.The real figures are much much higher.PLUS, and this is the MAIN point here.What you SAVED last year, is recuperated in the next budget because the government has to increase taxes to make up for the cheaters out there who DONT LIKE to pay them.
Interesting, don,t you think Wheter its you, or me, the Gov always gets its taxes,so why not share the load and hope the next Gov will be better than this one.
BTW i know your american,so just substitute american for canadian in this post.