Reply #41: Sales taxes vary [View All]

[elare]

You have the Goods & Services Tax (GST) which is federal, and applies to just about everything except groceries (except for junk food, which is taxable). Then the individual provinces may or may not have a sales tax as well (I believe that Alberta has no provincial sales tax, but I may be wrong).

The GST is 7%; provincial sales tax rates vary. In Ontario, it's 8%. So, in Ontario, you'd pay 15% on that refrigerator because both the federal & provincial tax would be applicable to that purchase. I think the provincial sales tax in Manitoba is 7% ... don't know about the other provinces.