In Canada Harmonized Sales Tax can be defined as a sales tax that has merged (or harmonized) two or more existing taxes. The result of harmonizing is a single sales taxed called HST. In the summer of 2010 the Province of Ontario will be merging their two sales taxes, GST & PST into HST.

By combining the Provincial Sales Tax and the Goods and Services Tax, PST & GST will become a single value added tax, instead of two distinct taxes that don’t always work the same.

HST in Ontario will not change the price of  many items, however some items that were once exempt from one sales tax may see a tax increase.

Once PST and GST merge into HST, the entire sales tax landscape in Ontario will change. The total sales tax for Ontario will be a single 13% HST.

This major tax reform has left many Canadians with a lot questions. HST Ontario is a non biased approach to answering HST questions, sharing HST exemption lists and covering news about the ongoing HST debate.