FYI, Yes they do refund some taxes BUT: you have to  spend enough cash to surpass a certain minimum in taxes paid.  Find out how much that is or you will be wasting your time standing in a line at a duty-free shop holding your worthless wrinkled receipts like I did.
  Chris C 90mv

  Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
  It has been a while since I have done this but the answer is definately Yes.
Keep your receiots and when you come back into the states stop at customs
and present your receipts to them. I'm not sure that they refund both GST
and PST but they will refund one of the two (or both can't remember). Like
Ian said this applies to good not Alcohol, Food, or services.

Again some of my points could be a bit off because it has been a long time
since I have been to Canada. Which is crazy considering my home town has the
International Blue Water Bridge and Sarnia is just across the bridge.

On 1/10/07, Ian Allan wrote:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Ian Allan
> > Date: January 10, 2007 12:39:08 AM EST
> > To: jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Canadian taxes
> >
> > Joy:
> >
> > Pretty sure that visitors to Canada can recover the taxes (both
> > provincial and and federal) on goods they take back home. Taxes on
> > Guinness, lobsters etc. stay in the country and benefit Frank C. and
> > Benny Boy etc.
> >
> > Hope to meet you some day.
> >
> >
> > Ian Allan
> >
> > 93 Eurovan Westfalia
> > 85 Westfalia
> > 02 Jetta 1.8t
> > 89 Audi 80Q
> >
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It needs a lot of work)
86' (Soon to be donating organs to the 90')
85' GL (sidelined but to be resurrected in the near future)