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>In British Columbia, a Canadian province on the west coast (Pacific Ocean-side)
>the government sees FAX as a "handy source of revenue" (quotes are mine!). In
>the latest budget for the province, the government has started charging sales
>tax on FAX transmissions. 

How exactly do they differentiate between a fax call and a voice call? I 
can see this being done on those fax services that offer lower rates
for fax calls only that some of the phone companies provide but I can't exactly
see how they are going to identify about 95% of the fax calls that are on
plain voice lines?

>Obviously, this tax must be collected by the
>telephone company, who inadvertently become tax collectors thru their
>accounting process.

Every retailer in Canada is already the government tax collector with
the Goods and Services Tax and the phone company has already been
charging GST on regular service. WHats new here?

tj