Canada has a national sales tax of 5 percent, and each province imposes its own sales tax on top of that. Provincial tax rates vary by province and the type of good you purchase. The national tax is called GST (
Select the year for which you want to calculate the CPI and add the prices of all the goods in your basket of goods for that year. For instance, if you want to calculate CPI in 2017 using the basket of goods in the example, you would add the prices of a gallon of gas, a loaf o...