Re: [Paddlewise] Run for the border

You can only claim back the gst.


wendy


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Kingfisher Wilderness Adventures Ltd" <kingfshr_at_idmail.com>
To: "PaddleWise" <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>,        "Wes Boyd"  
<boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Run for the border
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:49:38 -0700

Wes Boyd wote in regard to buying a kayak in Canada:

 > The other complication is sales tax. A combination of provincial and
 > federal sales taxes comes to 15% of the value of the purchase. However,
 > when you cross the border, you can pick up a form that's submitted to the
 > Canadian government to refund the sales tax.

Hi Wes,

The 15% sales tax is a combination of 7% Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) and
8% Ontario Provincial Sales Tax ( PST).

I believe you can only have the 7% GST refunded by the government not the 8%
PST. I know that is a fact with the provincial sales tax in British Columbia
( from years in retail selling to American tourists ). The Ontario PST mat
be different but I don't think so. With the exchange rate the way it is it
is still probably cheaper to buy in Canada.

Andrew Jones
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Kingfisher Wilderness Adventures Ltd.
North Vancouver, BC, Canada

www.kingfisher-adventures.com
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