BY FIONA ANDERSON, VANCOUVER SUN 

 

VANCOUVER — Consumers will likely be paying more at restaurants and for services such as haircuts and accounting when B.C. adopts a harmonized sales tax next July.

Under the harmonized tax regime, announced Thursday by the provincial government, the five-per-cent federal goods and services tax will be combined with

PHUKET, Thailand – European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that while the trade bloc welcomes growing economic cooperation with the fast-growing economies of East Asia, he still views the World Trade Organization as the best means of pushing the goal of freer trade around the world.