British Expats - Digital Camera's In Canada

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Originally Posted by lizwil98

Oh for sure - the tax system is SO much better in the UK. I absolutely hate going to a restaurant and I am with someone where we have decided to pay for our own meals. You try to figure out what you share of the bill is and then you are supposed to add the tax to that and nobody knows if its GST and PST or just GST or just PST.

Mind you, apparently way back when, I assume I was in Canada but I can't remember it - we voted in favour of having it this ridiculous way for some stupid reason.

I wish we could vote it back again because this system is a pain in the you know what!

We never to my knowledge ever voted on any part of the PST or GST.

PST if you live in a province that has it has been around a long time. I believe it was imposed by the government in power at the time.

GST was imposed on us by the Mulroney government we had no say in the matter. The Cretien liberals ran on a platform of repealing the GST but as you can see they reneged on that promise and it's stilll around.

GST was supposed to replace a hidden tax (if I remember correctly it was the Manufacturers Tax) so we would know what we were paying in taxes. However most of us don't want to know and would rather the tax have been included in the price.