It's all playing thru to become strictly a federal state. Corporations, as of 2009 year ends, no longer have to remit a corporate tax return to the province. They haven't been looking at them for the last 4 or 5 years anyhow. So stands to reason they don't want to look after the retail sales taxes monthly issues either.. hand it ALL over to the feds and make it an HST return instead. This is where the government lads think it's great for business... releases them from doing one monthly remittance. Problem is, it's with absolutely no renumeration for doing the governments work for them. At least the PST folks gave you a $20 minimum and up to 5% for amounts over $400 each remittance period to cover some of your time. So a business doing a million a month in sales... = $50,000 in tax collected = $2500 ($30,000/yr) refund for doing the governments work for them! Maybe this is the stimulus "package" as that 5% they were giving away will now go into Federal coffers.... as GST/HST gives you absolutely nothing for collecting for them!