If you’re planning a cross border shopping trip, you may want to try to make it coincide with a long weekend to save on duties and taxes.

According to this article, Canadian border guards have been instructed not to conduct duty checks on Canadians returning home from the U.S. on long weekend in an attempt to reduce border wait times.

If this report is accurate, it offers a great opportunity for Canadians to save even more during their U.S. shopping trips by avoiding Canadian duties, federal sales tax and provincial sales tax that might otherwise be payable.