The CRA report provides details on spirits, wine, and beer, as well as cannabis and provides information on the amount of excise duty assessed minus any approved refunds for excise duty remitters on those products.
Cannabis extracts, edibles, and topicals became legal in October 2019, with sales for most products not beginning until early 2020.
The other is an “ad valorem” cannabis duty imposed on packaged cannabis products at the time the products are delivered to a purchaser such as a provincially-authorized distributor or retailer, or a final consumer .
Many cannabis producers have been expressing frustration with the high rate of taxation of cannabis flower, calculated at either $1 per gram or 10%, whichever is higher.
Ex/ pt went from 35 seizures/day to 4 per day.