Canadian Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is a goods and services tax present in certain provinces of Canada. The HST is a combination of the General Sales Tax (GST) and the Provincial Sales Tax (PST). It occurs in provinces that opted to combine the PST and the GST when the tax was first ...
(GST) in lieu of adopting an economically and administratively untested - and potentially more cumbersome - alternative form of consumption tax. The following letter was sent to the Ministers of Finance of the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, urging the provinces ...