Re: Moving on

["Jack" <JackG@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I loved Canada when I visited there, after returning to the states, I filled
out the forms and sent all of the original receipts to them for the refund.
It said to be patient because it would take some time to get the refund.
Would have amounted to a fair amount of money..............

Never heard from them and it has been two years.

Regards,

John in Okc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: RE: Moving on


| One correction Art.  In each of my last several visits to Canada, I found
| that the refund of VAT to tourists (i.e., visitors) does not apply to
| everything but only to some things; there are a set of resrictions and
| conditions.  It does not cover, for example, VAT taxes on food purchased
in
| restaurants or if the total taxes are less than a given amount.  Moreover,
| one has to apply for a refund of the taxes after one has left the country
| using a special form filled out and submitted to a given location by a
given
| deadline.  Thus, the visitor must know about the refund policy and know to
| get the form and save all one's receipts (since a requirement is that one
| submit the original receipts with the application for it to be valid). It
| should also be known that if the application and original receipts are
lost
| in the mail; the Canadian Govt. assumes no responsibility and the
submitter
| is just out of luck unless they can get duplicate original receipts from
| those from whom the purchase was originally made ( good luck on that one
| except possible with hotels and airlines).

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