The Canadian Government through the Department of Finance recently released a draft technical changes to the Goods and Services Tax / Harmonized Sales Tax (GST/HST) rules for sales of carbon emission allowances, such as those traded in cap and trade systems. Effective as of June 27th, 2018, the purchaser of carbon emission allowances is responsible for self-assessing the tax amount when the GST/HST is payable on such a sale. This change replaces the previous requirement where the seller of the allowance collected the tax from the purchaser and remitted it to the CRA. The Department of Finance notes that this rule...