It has been reported that all the homeowners and contractors are bracing themselves for an increase in the renovation costs which will hit everyone as the Harmonized Sales tax comes into full effect on July 1. The tax would necessarily mean that all the goods and also the services that are sold in B. C. which are taxed only in a provincial or federal basis currently will now have to be taxed by both at the full tax rate of about 12 per cent.

The consumers have already started inquiring before having any kind of jobs done on a bigger scale like cases of repairs on the roof and also replacements of windows and some are only scheduling the work according to the taxes.

No matter what the pretext is, a tax remains to be a tax, and in this case, not many people are actually buying that argument that when the cost of manufacturing becomes cheap, the price of the goods lessens. It was also made certain that the job that would affected by this tax the most would undoubtedly be glass jobs as the tax would have to be paid for two things, the labour and of course, the material.