<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not follow Wikipedia's guidelines on the use of different tenses . Please consider copy editing to past tense if historic, present tense if not time - based (e.g. fiction), or future tense if upcoming . (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sales taxes in British Columbia are consumption taxes levied in the province since the introduction of the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) on 1 July 1948, part of the Social Service Tax Act . Sales in the province have also been subject to the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) since its introduction on 1 January 1991 . </P> <P> On 1 July 2010, the PST and GST were combined into the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) levied according to the provisions of the GST . The conversion to HST was controversial . Popular opposition led to a referendum on the tax system, the first such referendum in the Commonwealth of Nations, resulting in the province reverting to the former PST / GST model on 1 April 2013 . </P> <P> The sales taxes levied in the province are the separate 7% PST and 5% GST, as of April 2013 . </P>

When did bc switch from hst to gst