[Meowjin]

Is this normal? I thought if we wern't in province we didn't have to pay tax.

[Bender Unit]

Normal.
Canada Vendor will charge whatever Tax apply in your province

[TheNewGirl]

They have HST in Ont. as well so even if they charged with there defaults it would be there.

[invader]

^ correct
But it depends on vendor. I bought a set of coilovers from a vendor in Ontario, didn't charge me HST.

[Dragon-88]

When i charge my Ont clients they get charges ONT HST... No biggie really.

[MG1]

The harmonized sales tax in Ontario is 13%

Ours is 12%

That's the only difference. What used to be provincial sales tax is higher there than here, am I correct?

[Selanne_200]

yea their PST is 8%

[bloodmack]

Yeah if its going to ON there wouldn't be HST but since its coming from ON there will be HST.

[johny]

the HST screws things up quite a bit for cross border shopping.

now if you buy something from Alberta, they have to charge you BC HST. a pain in the ass for alberta companys, and plus you pay more. before no PST was charged.

[nah]

they charge HST because it's a federal tax, you always have to pay the federal taxes.

[jackmeister]

the item will charge the GST/HST of the destination.

So if they sold the same item to someone in Alberta, it would only be 5% but 12% to BC.

[gars]

a pain in the ass for alberta companys, and plus you pay more. before no PST was charged.

That's not true, I knew quite a few online vendors that had to charge PST for orders shipped outside their province.

[snowball]

ssense didn't used to charge PST, now they charge HST, bummer