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Try looking at your receipt next time you go grocery shopping. Some things will have HST and others won’t! Now go to PEI and buy some kids’ clothes and look at
by spoonie 9y ago
Try looking at your receipt next time you go grocery shopping. Some things will have HST and others won’t! Now go to PEI and buy some kids’ clothes and look at your receipt. Next, go to a coffee shop and buy a cup of coffee... HST, then turn around and buy a bag of roasted coffee beans... no HST!
- smnrchrds 9y agoI live in Alberta, so I only pay GST :) My point was, there are only 10 sets of tax rules a seller has to know to do business in Canada: 1. GST 2. BC PST 3. Manitoba RST 4. New Brunswick HST 5. Newfoundland and Labrador HST 6. Nova Scotia HST 7. Ontario HST 8. PEI HST 9. Quebec QST 10. Saskatchewan PST It is quite manageable for a business to know and abide by 10 sets of rules. Having to know, abide by, and follow the updates to 6000+ different sets of rules would be difficult even for large enterprises, let alone small businesses. I am glad Canada does not give the power to levy sales taxes to sub-province entities.