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Class action seeks partial refunds from major retailers
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Class action seeks partial refunds from major retailers

  • By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban

Charles Olivier-Rivard is seeking to launch a class-action suit against more than a dozen major retailers, amongst them Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart, claiming they wrongly charged provincial and federal sales tax for such items as product protection plans and extended warranties.

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Voters deserve a say as counties consider shifting property tax burden to sales taxes

  • Brad Johnson

South Dakota’s new optional half-percent county sales tax is being sold as property-tax relief. It is relief only in the sense of moving money from one pocket to another. The cost of county government does not fall. The law changes who pays it. Meade, Pennington, Custer and Codington are among the counties that have enacted […]