{"id":48,"date":"2006-09-27T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-09-27T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:13:00","slug":"visitor-gst-rebate-program-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/visitor-gst-rebate-program-eliminated.html","title":{"rendered":"Visitor G.S.T. rebate program eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) announced on Monday that the Visitor GST Rebate Program will be eliminated.  GST (Goods, Services Tax &#8211; 6%) rebate applications will no longer be accepted effective April 1st, 2007.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">  You must submit your applications by this date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What does this mean to non-Canadian residents<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">You will no longer be able to claim 6% off your accommodation or 3% off your vacation package (if accommodation is a main component) when you leave Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">If you book your holiday before April 1st, 2007, for travel before this date, you will be able to claim back the visitor rebate &#8211; saving you 3% or 6% off the price of your holiday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">More information on the current visitor tax rebate program: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/E\/pub\/tg\/rc4031\/README.html\">http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/E\/pub\/tg\/rc4031\/README.html <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">For application for the tax rebate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/E\/pub\/tg\/rc4031\/README.html\">http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/E\/pbg\/gf\/gst176\/README.html  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Frocky-peak.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F09%2Fvisitor-gst-rebate-program-eliminated.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) announced on Monday that the Visitor GST Rebate Program will be eliminated. GST (Goods, Services Tax &#8211; 6%) rebate applications will no longer be accepted effective April 1st, 2007. You must submit your applications by this date. What does this mean to non-Canadian residents? You will no longer be able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/visitor-gst-rebate-program-eliminated.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visitor G.S.T. rebate program eliminated<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}