You are about to become the victim of one of the largest tax hike in our history!
What is the HST?

The HST is the harmonizing of both GST and PST to a new 13% tax.

The intended purpose is to blend the GST and the PST into one tax. The reason the Provincial and Federal Government are implementing this new tax is to cut down the paperwork for Ontario businesses and, there thinking, lessen staff by merging both departments. This could be a good attempt to cut costs. There is just one problem. Rather than just blending the products and services that now charge both taxes, the provincial government has decided that it will apply this new tax to almost all goods and services that you do not pay PST on now!
Now the big question is how will this affect you?

Here is a short list of items that you will now be charged an extra 8% to purchase and you decide if it will affect you and your family:

Gasoline          Home heating fuel         Water

New homes     Hydro                               Used cars

Newspapers    Hair Cuts

Any service you now use for your home or business such as repairs, 
professional services of any kind (Lawyer, Accountant etc.), construction materials etc.
 
This article www.digitaljournal.com/article/269917 lays out the extra cost a family could endure and talks about the $1000.00 rebate they are offering. 

Almost everything currently without PST in your life except children’s clothing, prescription drugs, diapers, and feminine hygiene products will now cost you 8% more. Our premier is counting on taxpayers to do what they always do when a new tax is added. Nothing!

It is very important that you start to research and discuss this with your friends and family.

It is not too late to stop this if you are willing to do something as send an email to the premier asking him either to

a) Stop the tax grab all together

b) Do what was originally intended and blend the tax on the products that now have both taxes and not to extend the new tax to everything else.

To contact Premier Dalton McGuinty please go to www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp