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Combined with the fact that sales tax is tied to consumption rather than income, this leads some to the conclusion that low-income individuals and families pay a greater proportion of their incomes in sales taxes, therefore sales tax is regressive. You're supposed to read regressive as unfair.
In Canada sales taxes are applied in three different ways - at the federal level through the Goods and Services Tax (GST), at the provincial level through a provincial sales tax (PST), sometimes called the retail sales tax, or through the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), a single tax combining the GST and PST.