{"id":2961,"date":"2013-04-01T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2013-04-01T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T07:00:26","slug":"changes-in-retail-sales-taxes-in-bc-and-pei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Retail Sales Taxes in BC and PEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective today, residents of Prince Edward Island will be subject to a Harmonized Sales Tax of 14% on most services and products whilst British Columbia Residents will be subject to a Goods and Services Tax of 5%, which will be replacing the Harmonized Sales Tax of 12% in BC.<\/p>\n<p>In British Columbia there will be a decrease in taxes on books (audio, electronic, bound and printed), basic cable services, concert tickets, music lessons and movie tickets but a combined tax of 12% (5% GST + 7% PST) will remain on most products and services. Individually purchased magazines will be subject to less taxes in this province. <\/p>\n<p>In Prince Edward Island there will be decreases in retail sales taxes on CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, MP3 players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, radios, stereos, televisions, movie tickets, basic cable subscriptions and individual magazine purchases. Audio Books and Books will still be subject to the GST at 5% in this province whilst music lessons will be exempt. <\/p>\n<p>For additional information please consult the following documents :<\/p>\n<ul><strong>For Residents of British Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/gov\/topic\/BED47DA4EBDBA60A5F28622B8B2E1451\/uploads\/whats_taxable_whats_not.pdf\">What&#8217;s Taxable and What&#8217;s Not ?<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/nwsrm\/fctshts\/2013\/m03\/fs130327b-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fact sheet: Changes to the sales tax in British Columbia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/E\/pub\/gi\/notice270\/notice270-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elimination of the HST in British Columbia in 2013 \u2013 Questions and Answers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><strong>For Residents of Prince Edward Island<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peihst.ca\/index.php3?number=1043686&#038;lang=E\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Taxable and What&#8217;s Not ?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/nwsrm\/fctshts\/2013\/m03\/fs130327-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fact sheet: Harmonized sales tax in Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/tx\/bsnss\/tpcs\/gst-tps\/gnrl\/txbl\/trnstnl\/menu-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">GST\/HST \u2013 General information HST &#8211; Transitional rules for Prince Edward Island for transactions that straddle April 1, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-1702705-10408413\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-1702705-10408413\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" alt=\"chapters.indigo.ca\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective today, residents of Prince Edward Island will be subject to a Harmonized Sales Tax of 14% on most services and products whilst British Columbia Residents will be subject to a Goods and Services Tax of 5%, which will be replacing the Harmonized Sales Tax of 12% in BC. In British Columbia there will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[101,152,442,452,478,685,699,745,806,835,836,931],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}