Maybe some of the larger hotels. If they have a restaurant, dive shop, bar, or gift shop, then they are already collecting GST and can deduct what they are paying off that. But for a small hotel, or someone who rents only a few houses or condos, it does not make sense.

If you have no room rentals say in October, then would you be able to deduct the GST that you paid on your utilities that month? What about groceries for breakfast? We have to pay GST for that and the price is included in the room rate. It just seems much more complicated for a small place.

There's that, and then the idea that rooms now booked for 2013 will now have to be changed. Rates would change. Seems to me that this should be something that they would do a year in advance as we have some guests (as I am sure others do) that come every year at the same time, and know the rate each year. Now we have to go in and tell them it is a different rate. In addition, what do you do with someone staying from December 26 to January 5? Pay 9% on their room for five nights? GST on the other nights?

It just seems that they have not thought this through very well, that's all. And to start it in the middle of high season is ludicrous.

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