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When you paid the 13%, that included the 6% national VAT (GST) and provincial sales tax (PST) which I believe combined is called HST. Since I live in Alberta where there is no PST - just the 6% GST... which is being lowered to 5% come Jan 08.
Gasoline does carry some hefty provincial and federal sales taxes in the price, but not nearly as much as in Europe. America could take a lesson from all this. Slap on $1/gal tax and watch demand shrink, trade deficit shrink and fiscal deficit shrink. But that has been discussed before elsewhere in this forum.
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