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Archives for Excise and GST/HST News:

Excise and GST/HST News, no. 89 (summer 2013)

  • Bill C-60 and Bill C-48 receive Royal Assent
  • Draft legislative proposals for public comment
  • Medical and surgical prostheses
  • Supplies of nursing services versus a supply of nursing personnel
  • Application of the GST/HST to residential elevators
  • Time limits for claiming a public service bodies’ rebate (PSB rebate)
  • Changes to original receipt requirements for GST/HST rebates
  • GST/HST rebates phone enquiries
  • Where is my GST/HST refund?
  • Prescribed rates of interest
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Excise and GST/HST News, no. 88 (spring 2013)

  • Federal Budget 2013
  • Regulations Amending Various GST/HST Regulations, No. 4
  • Reminder – changes to harmonized sales tax in Prince Edward Island and British Columbia
  • Music programs
  • Matsqui First Nation implements First Nations goods and services tax
  • What’s new with GST/HST electronic filing?
  • What’s new with online services?
  • Direct deposit
  • Prescribed rates of interest
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Excise and GST/HST News, no. 87 (winter 2013)

  • Bill C-45 receives Royal Assent
  • Phasing out of the penny
  • Changes to the Quebec sales tax (QST)
  • Administrative tolerance regarding elections forms RC4530 and RC4531
  • Supplies of taxable property and services to government entities
  • Tax relief for Indians does not include the M-tis, Inuit or Non-status Indians
  • Exemption for prescribed diagnostic, treatment or other health care services rendered to an individual
  • New login features for CRA’s online services
  • Make an online request – It’s easy, fast, and secure
  • Prescribed rates of interest
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Excise and GST/HST News – Fall 2012 – No. 86

  • Changes to the Quebec sales tax (QST)
  • Prince Edward Island and the HST
  • Reminder for organizations that have been determined or designated as municipalities and organizations that have been designated as hospital authorities that subsequently malgamate, merge or consolidate
  • Elimination of the HST in British Columbia and enhanced British Columbia new housing rebates
  • Bill C-45
  • Elimination of the penny
  • The supply of a site in a trailer park where the site is occupied by a recreational unit
  • Lift chairs – zero-rated medical and assistive devices
  • New stamping regime for tobacco products
  • Tobacco regulations
  • What’s new with GST/HST electronic filing?
  • Enhancements to online enquiries service
  • Prescribed rates of interest
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