It is no jest, replied in a deep voice the masked figure that held the lantern. The king, more impatient than intimidated, turned to the other masked figure. The second masked person to whom the king had addressed himself was a man of huge stature and vast circumference. Louis looked all round him; but by the light of the lamp which the masked figure raised for the purpose, he could perceive nothing but the damp walls which glistened here and there with the slimy traces of the snail.
Harmonized sales tax. The harmonized sales tax (HST) is a consumption tax in Canada. It is used in provinces where both the federal goods and services tax (GST) and the regional provincial sales tax (PST) have been combined into a single value added sales tax.
The single harmonized sales tax (HST), set to begin in Ontario on July 1, 2010, will essentially harmonize the current Ontario Retail Sales Tax (RST) with the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) into a single value-added sales tax-HST.he rules determine whether the RST or HST will apply in a certain transaction. In commercial leasing, the HST generally applies to payments corresponding to the part of the lease interval that occurs on or after July 1, 2010.