Comments on: Golf Gets Grumpy About HST http://www.golfnewsnow.ca/2009/09/27/golf-gets-grumpy-about-hst/ Canada's trusted source for immediate golf trade news Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ged Stonehouse http://www.golfnewsnow.ca/2009/09/27/golf-gets-grumpy-about-hst/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Ged Stonehouse Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:45:44 +0000 http://www.golfnewsnow.ca/?p=4851#comment-1406 When the HST was introduced in Nova Scotia the industry came together to present our case to the Province. We gathered financial information from every golf course (at the time in NS they added it to only 5 what they considered elite sports). We created a presentation on the recreational / health benefits of the sport and then the Economic Impact to the Communities that we were in. We put all of the information on every course into a binder along with the presentation and had one of these binders delivered personaly to each of the MLA's (members of the Legislative Assembly). They put the tax on in the fall and in February or March the removed it... yes they removed it because of our coordinated presintation. A few years later they put it back on again and it has been there since. When the HST was introduced in Nova Scotia the industry came together to present our case to the Province. We gathered financial information from every golf course (at the time in NS they added it to only 5 what they considered elite sports). We created a presentation on the recreational / health benefits of the sport and then the Economic Impact to the Communities that we were in. We put all of the information on every course into a binder along with the presentation and had one of these binders delivered personaly to each of the MLA’s (members of the Legislative Assembly).

They put the tax on in the fall and in February or March the removed it… yes they removed it because of our coordinated presintation.

A few years later they put it back on again and it has been there since.

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