You're right Dorien, I am a "busy lad", so forgive me if I don't respond to every aspect of your post, I am sure our discussion is becoming tedious for others.
I will just respond to one part where you say;
"This "1928 to 1958" is something you have come up with. No idea were you are going with that one.
I said: "What reason is there to tax a part differently for a
1928 car to a 1958 car?"
The dates were random to some extent, but 1928 date does fall into the period which the British classify as "Vintage" where cars are concerned.
1958 is just some random date at which a car is still old, but not Vintage, in the eyes of the British that is. My point being, why treat cars from these years differently for taxation purposes?
I now see that your law doesn't.
The British view the Vintage car period as 1919-1930.
As a parting suggestion, if you have so much influence over Canadian law, why not simply do what we do here in Australia and make any personal import less that $1000 in value duty/GST free. Then it wouldn't matter what those annoying British vendors put on their paperwork!
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