>"A thorn by any other name would prick as painfully". VAT or Sales Tax - it matters not what the robbing b******s call it, whether the money is local or goes to the govt. In Canada they have two, not always both applied - one being national and the other provincial. GST and PST or summat like that (the tax Michelle doesn't want us to have to pay for using the UT too, I think). On return to the UK you can claim it back as if it were VAT.

You're waaaaaaaaaaaay too informed about Canada. Me thinks you're a spy.

>(Here's where all the canucks start chipping in now!) :-)

Chip chippity... ;-)