mint 官网对这个问题的说明:
How will the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) affect my purchase?
Following the implementation of harmonized sales tax (HST) regimes in Ontario and British Columbia on July 1, 2010, all gold and silver products meeting the following conditions will be HST exempt:
Minimum purity must be 99.5% for gold and platinum and 99.9% for silver;
Products must be in bar, ingot, coin or wafer form; and
Coins satisfying minimum purity levels must have also been issued by a government authority as legal tender.
For further information, please visit the Canada Revenue Agency's website at
www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/b...-eng.html.