>>>>"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.
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>>>You're waaaaaaaaaaaay too informed about Canada. Me thinks you're a spy.
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>>>>(Here's where all the canucks start chipping in now!) :-)
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>>>Chip chippity... ;-)
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>>I thought that looked like a bit of beaver on your chin! :-)
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>Now that was funny without you even knowing it.

I do know the other meaning of "beaver" you know! ;-)