Loblaw Companies Ltd. has been charging B.C. customers the provincial sales tax on tax-free lawn and garden items, a spokesman said Thursday. In the wake of Home Depot admitting Tuesday it had been charging the PST on exempt items for the past year-and-a-half, Loblaw, which owns Real Canadian Superstores, found it had also inadvertently been taxing consumers all across B.C. It has fixed the error. "If [customers] do have an affected item and its receipt, we will refund on that portion of their PST," spokesman Craig Ware emailed The Province Thursday. He said the company has in no way benefited from the error, and that staff are still looking into how long the mistake has been made and how much PST has been overcharged.
On top of that, Bobbie Krawchuk, also of Maple Ridge, bought fertilizer — another exempt item — this week at a Zellers store and found she had also been charged the PST. "It's only 63 cents, but it's the principle," Krawchuk told The Province. The Hudson's Bay Company, which owns Zellers, has since issued a statement saying staff are looking into the matter.
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