Canada --SMART METER TAX

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If you like smart meters you're going to love this - more smart meter tax

Soon you are going to have to pay for the privilege of having it forced on

you, plus, you guessed it, you are going to have to pay HST on the extra

fee. But not until next year – not something you are suppose to know about

before an election.

At least the smart meters were made in Ontario right? Nope...... Made in

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Buried on a footnote on page 1-102, of volume 2a of the 2010 Ontario

Public Accounts is a revelation that Dalton McGuinty*s Minister of Energy

quietly approved a request from the Independent Electricity Systems Operator to

apply to the Ontario Energy Board for a new tax called Smart Meter Service

Fees.

Page 13 of the Independent Electricity System Operator*s 2011-2013

Business Plan confirms that the Dalton McGuinty Liberals are already budgeting

to

collect $33 million per year in Smart Meter Service Fees beginning in 2012.

Over the next four years, this would cost Ontario families $132 million to

run the smart meter super computer.

This new Smart Meter Tax will be applied to smart meter hydro bills above

and beyond the higher costs of **time of use pricing**.

Already under Dalton McGuinty, hydro rates have gone up 84 percent and 150

percent for homes with a smart meter, not to mention the $1 billion ($200

per household) price tag that came with installing smart meters.