> Does your GST stand for "Goods and Services Tax?"

Yep!

> We have a GST in Canada, and it does not apply to any grocery-bought foods, but other similar things like cleaning supples from the grocery store and fast foods have it added.

I think that most prepackaged or prepared food has it. It's only the basics, bread milk vegetables, etc that don't have GST added. We've only had it for 12 months, but all the prices have GST included, so you don't need to work anything out.

>When the GST was introduced, it created quite an uproar in Alberta because we were the only province with no provincial sales tax and so before the national GST was introduced, a price was a price, and you didn't have to do any calculations in your head to figure out what the "real" price was. Now, every province has a 7% GST added on top of their provincial sales tax.

Ours is 10%

It doesn't really bother me. I was worried that it would affect my business. Being a service, dancing classes had to go up 10%, and I thought people would be turned away by that, but although a bit up and down, it's been ok.

ding"I hate doing 5 tax returns a year though"dong