_ .-.-'., ~-'~ • u:: • -,... • ,:~ i '~:' :", ' i' .V£cCdi:£a, ~ ;C. ' ..... ": i : New ,- . ,,.,' ts ...... Herala ~ta~! wn~r ~. - . -. - " : ,. TERRACE-- Restsarant owners and'numag Ts.,are :, . • .....- '.'. 4- .'=~',~v",~, ='q$. more ='1~',roblen= . ~Wi,h~.= the* neWmeal:: ... tax • rules~. than• ,): ,', ~ ~o~x/~'" " *their customers.-All the cUstomers have tO d0Is pay.::The ? :--, ' ~: "~= t:., - .r~tahrate~_rs. ba~e't o figure it out. ::- / .' ./" ~-::,; ' ::.'-.': • .( ...~..~. .!:,) :"/..}:: .Not.:aH nieail~fl_e[s~e ~ndl~ng~":p~ib!edi th,: .mime*.' :.. -(• • ! ,• /--'.~:: : !: •'. ,; • /.The newseven ~1. :cent tax:0nmeals!con~umed 0h. ,the ' •. iL , ' - • " ,-!.i}/i,/~::~ ':(i,~.,,,i '.~',5~ .' i premisesor'arestaurant;weresup~togbintoeffettat. • . ....... -., • . .. mi~igbtWhenThu~diiy,jniy?boeameFriday,julye. ..... r ~ / .-, I . , = - ..... ".; .,o. • . ! , Monday., July 11, 1983 .j -, • "~ Me ]~2 That m ,=elf became a pr0blem..Some managers hadn t, • : 25 cents .~ ,;'~i~.Estab'ii lvo8 _. Volome'77 ........ , .... i " ' ' t .... --.. " been able:ta understand-whatthenew~rules'were:bytho .... ... time, so they basically ignored 1~em until they could gather more information.... " " "" For those restaurants that were open that night untilpast ~ "midnight and tried to put the new tax into effect it was . Abortion something of a nightmare. Do you charge the seven per cent on meals served before midnight but not paid for until after? Or do you only charge the tax on meals that were money served after the deadline? If ameal was ordered at 1!:59 p.m. that became a whble other problem..The matter was so confusing that individualmanagers were coming up with raised their own solutions. Which means depending upon' the managers, customers who 'ordered the same, meal In t TORONTO CP " -- separate establishments were i~aying different prices when Supporters of Dr. Henry it became time to go to the cashrngister. M0rgentaler's Toronto With those managers Who tried to obey the new rules, the abortion clinic believe they bookkeeping problem immt~llat~ifollowed. After they have raised enough money rung off the Cash registers and got 'nil their bills together, to replace equipment seized they were suddenly faced with a 32-day July. The week in a police.rald on theclinic now had two Thursdays hi it, a pre~tax Thurs4ay and a post- last TueSday. tax Thursday. When it comes time to audit their books the But despite the success of accountants should have a field daywiththesituatlon. the fundraislng effort, the Then there was the confusion bVer. when the new tax was new equipment wou't be payable. At first some thought itwas I/idividually. So ff two purchased until,the .three. people were sitting at the same:table, one ordering a $12 doctors charged as a result dollar meal and the other, only havingcoffea, some outlets : of the raid decide whether to •charged tax on the $12 meal.. Lair it •was discovered by return to the clinic, some managers the tax was to be averaged out between the : spokesman .Judy. Reblck customers at the table. So the next day the same two people 'said. could order the same meal and ifthe pri~ of coffee was 50 cents, the totalbill wouldhe $12.50, but divided by two the • .Morgentaler. and two food cost per person hecomes nnly $6.25 which is under the'. associates, Dr. Robert Scott $7 starting point for taxes. `and Dr'. Leslie Smoling, face In Terrace this actually happened to some customers who " charges 'of conspiracy to then got angry, with the managers who were only trying to procure a mlscarrlnge~ the do their jobs as best they could.. " ' wox:ding, • used in the The $7 starting point is totally co.truing to resta,urant Criminal Code section on managers. Noone understanda where that amount comes nbertinn~. Scott and Smoling from. Nor can they undertand why a n~eal costing ~,99 is • also face: : charges of not taxed at all, while one crating $7.01 is taxed. And not i ! procuring a ! miscarrlage. --. just on the amount over the $7, but the whole amount, ~. Th~ ihr~. were released Those food outlets offering take-out service say the Friday on $ ,000 bail ~ch, All the planning these West, Fraser officials did DaldOff Svrtrider ?~/alhotra the plants opened, with two shifts difference in their cost of.takeout out orders and eat in but the hail wlll"be appealed today with the opening of Terrace's Skeena Mill totalling 90Workers. West Frasers' ob[ecflve/s to go into ' ~laler;this.w~ek, The .Crown under the new owners. According to IWA spokesman full pP.oduct~on today, moving 375,000 board feet per shift, orders is marginal, therefore, they can't dnderstand wby • .,.. ~.- the government chose to tax une'and not the other..,. ls~ seeking to have the " ' • . "~.~ " , . Trying to get the new' computer cash/registers / doe to~."~d~'d~.ffd not': tO " ' , __ " " • • • ",~-i. ' reprogrammed isn'teasy either. Tl~erejust,a'~en'tenough : return tothec] _~,,~un_.til the " ' ~,.,ImAi[m O "JL,,.~.,,m, .-|@n~--a- U,,~L"~.,.'-E ,,~_-_ .t--_ . " - ..~service men'to go around,'espeelally'at,the start of the '~ charges aredsalt~< " ~i[-U~ IIII Iruuu- nww n~_nrnn curvp_w .... boliday'season: .... ~** . ..... " . "~, Rebic~* l~'id" ' se,,~,.al - . i=, .... --..~ .,m.'~" ~wiw/.~w, 'mmmm l==~mWI.~M.p "== ~w~. "= :m '~. ww , - i , Some restaurants bave taken a novel approach to the new • )a,~i,~: "ha~/e "alread~ .:v;.;~,,~,,,,,.,;,~,,~,,,,r,o,~ r ' " J i':.- :'.~' ' :::; '.. ...... ' ~: :'.'!~' .~ " .- - " :.." ~ .. .. t~xregulations They'vehiddenlt They'vetankedseven • ,~/,v...... •'; : ......... ..~.. .7~, "± w,~puw.Wl~.,~m#~,~.~.-~:~ ~". :~ " ' .L,~ ". s ec3Lrjty,' '" ~umoriues" " ~,V oul(1 , ' the"" Cave,,' ."" of Machp~lali,' " " "*~'~' ' ' e ' ~ of tl~'"" month-long"" ' their' .... own militias, nut the , • • '" " • " a d when":" a customer, s,bill is ,,~ .tw, a ........ • , ~ ..... ..... ~.......... ..: .... , ~ .:~ ,.... ........... ....... .• -. ~ per cent ontoev thing n .~pl . :_~..~., :.eC~P.led.~'.~.n.° reimpose the, curfew Theslte, revered as the' ..Earllerf~day,/~ecu~w .dlsm,sk:iil: oT H~f~rons.. thebookkeeners'do~p~l~agie at the end 0f. the • mrev 'acctmeu, . aeeme .He~ron a~ter:, a .Smoumg . tonight. , " ......... burial place of •Abraham, w~ lifted for four hours so acting . Arab. mayor; month and*"- figure ' ot/t what amount of money the voluntarily to stay away , death last week of a Jewish Tension remained high in houses •both a Jewish . Arab residents could buy Mustafa Natshe, andaiso governmentis demanding.' However, under this system the from the Clinic. seminary student In* the the town and hoops were . synagogue and a mosque, food for the festival, decided to proceed with personwho buys a $4.50 meal'is also being charged the new town marketplace, called to prevent a clash whore Moslems came to "We've had calls, from The curfe(v in Hebron plans to restore the Jewish seven per cent tax without knowing it. the city A spokesman 'fo~; the between Jewish and Arab recite prayers for the Eid applied, only to Arab" presence inHebron. For some time a seven per cent tax.has been applied to several doctors in military command' said worshippers early today in ul-Fitr festival which marks and from outside-, areas residents of the town. Jews Tbe previous : Jewish beer consumed in a restaurant. If the bottle costs $2, offering to wor k at the clinic living in the Jewish quarter iommunRy in Hebron was owners were forced to add 14 cents (not so in pubs or and perform abortions," of the ancient community, d!spersed after Arabs lounges). That may be why the seven per cent amount was and in the 'outlying Jewish massacred 70 Jews there in she said• Health care to be cut. - " decided, the $7 limit may have been deeldnd because the tax quarter of Kiryat. Arba, 1929 in what was then VICTORIA (CP) -- As Association say~ it has not These charges are banned began after July 7. That caused some comics to remark "We intend to provide full • were allowed :. to free Palestine. /tort of its over-all cost- yet had time to absorb what • in the new. bill, but only for that at least the government didn't bring in the tax on July abortion services at the • movement in the silent .After Isrsel.ca~p.tured the 28. cutting bid, the provincial the bill really means. It has doctors - who : : receive streets.": ' West Bank .from Jordan in clinic as quickly as possible, government is laying the set up a committee of payment directly, from the But. many restaurateurs note that most of these probably in the next. couple • Meanw~hil:e, .Rivdl 1967, a Jewish .settleme'ht problems could have been .solved if the prov.iucial groundw0rk'for three kinds doctors and lawyers, to medical services plan. Christidq" ":and Druse- was founded adjacent to the of Weeks." -of medical care for B.C, fathom it out. The third type of doctors government had announced tile new tax on July ,7, but M~iem militias exchanged Arabcity. But Some Jewish waited a few weeks before putting them into effect and residents. Under the new 'bill, the is crea[e d by powers given Rebick said the doctors shellfire in the'Shout militants eccupied buildings given the owners some preparation time. ." The provincial cabinet will continue to to cabinet to limit the are "well aware that they Mountains outside • Beirut inside the city, heightening The owners are also gearing up for suspected changes in •government has said have the last word of what number of medical risk being arrested just like during thenight and Soviet- tensions with the Arabs. their industry when the federal government hands down its repeatedly that it wants to doctors will he paid for" practitioners in any given Dr. Morgentaler. '' made Grad rockets crashed next budget which is expected shortly. cut costs of all kinds and has various services, ranging area. This limit is applied onto several vfl-lages, press Deputy Premier David In (he meantime, the Besides causing more problems than needed, the Secreds poInted to the whole heal,th from office visits to a fam.ily by refusing ,MSP billing reports .in Beirut said., Levy said after the cabinet may have done one more thing.