A Knox Box is a secure key safe that mounts on the wall of a building. The only keys available to open the box are in the possession of the fire company. When there is a fire alarm or a fire, the fire company can access the key safe and use the building keys to enter the building rather than breaking into the building.
the tax is a 5 % tax imposed on the supply of goods and services that are purchased in canada except certain items that are either exempt or zero rated for tax free i e zero rated sales gst is charged by suppliers at a rate of 0 % so effectively there is no gst collected
In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces â New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia â entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the blended sales tax (renamed to harmonized sales tax) which would combine the 7% federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces; as part of this project, the PST portion of the new HST in these provinces dropped from 10% to 8%.