On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:09:33 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-03-28 10:55 AM, wrote:
>
>> In NY markets candy is taxed, but a chocolate cake from a bakery is
>> not taxed, nor is ice cream, even those loaded with confections.
>
>In Ontario I have to pay sales tax in a donut or a muffin, but if I buy
>a half dozen or more there is no tax. There is no provincial tax on a
>restaurant meal under $4 but there is a federal tax. If I go to the
>corner bakery and get a coffee and a muffin there is a 5% federal tax
>(GST) but no provincial tax and the total will be $3.80. If my wife is
>with me and has the same, that puts it over $4 so I have to pay the
>provincial and the federal and it is almost $1 extra in tax.

That's idiotic but there's a simple work around, you are two different
people, each of you order seperately.