Google Ads invoices in Canada can show GST/HST and the Canada DST fee, and the article explains when HST applies and how the 2.5% DST charge is credited back.

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Why Your Google Ads Invoice Shows HST, and How to Get Back the 2.5% Canada DST Fee

Two lines on Google Ads invoices confuse Canadian business owners more than anything else in the account: the GST/HST charge, and the 2.5% “Canada DST fee” that appeared in late 2024. One of them you can usually stop. The other has already stopped, and Google is now paying it back.

A contact form spam issue in Performance Max campaigns, showing suspicious bot leads, lead quality tracking, and ad performance filtering on a dark analytics-themed background.

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Performance Max Is Filling Your Contact Form With Spam: How to Stop Paying for Bot Leads

Your Performance Max campaign reports 60 leads this month at a great cost per conversion. You open the inbox and find names like “hgfdsa”, phone numbers that don’t exist, and messages pasted in Russian. Maybe five were real. This is one of the most common complaints about Performance Max for

Google Ads performance problem for local service businesses, where clicks are coming in but phone calls are not converting.

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Google Ads Getting Clicks but No Calls? A Diagnosis for Local Service Businesses

The Google Ads dashboard says 140 clicks this month. The phone rang maybe four times, and two of those were people selling SEO. Money is going out and nothing is coming in. When a local service business gets clicks but no calls, there are only three possibilities. The calls are

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Why Your Google Ads Invoice Shows HST, and How to Get Back the 2.5% Canada DST Fee

Performance Max Is Filling Your Contact Form With Spam: How to Stop Paying for Bot Leads

Google Ads Getting Clicks but No Calls? A Diagnosis for Local Service Businesses

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