Hank Hays wrote: > > Michael Daly wrote: > >As a further incentive for Americans and others to visit Canada and > >take advantage of our miniscule dollar and great waterways, let > >me point out that most, if not all, provinces allow for the refund of > >sales taxes when you return to your home country (or province). > >They don't tell you this loudly, but you can get a form that allows > >you to send in for a rebate. > > Our experience (as Americans) with the above mentioned refund is that it > has never amounted to enough to do us enough good to bother filling out the > form and submitting it. We often spend a few thousand dollars, but many > services are excluded, which is what we mostly spend money on on such trips > to Canada. Any others have the same experience? Pretty much so, although I could have bought a few six packs with my GST refund last summer. Frankly, I do not understand the philosophy behind the GST refund. When I travel in BC, I feel like I ought to pull my own weight up there, and so I never ask for the GST refund. OTOH, if I bought a yak in Canada, I might. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 18:33:25 PST
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