Hit-List

The “Real” Fight HST Hit List

Here is a list of the items previously exempt from PST that will now have HST applied to them at 7% additional.

• Accounting
• Admission Fees
• Advertising
• Airline tickets
• Animal feeds (hay is exempt)
• Appliance repair & maintenance
• Architects
• Art Galleries Admission
• Attractions / Events
• Ballet Lessons
• Basic Cable TV
• Bicycles
• Campgrounds
• Cigarettes / Cigars
• Catering
• Chinese medicine
• Clothing –adult sized children
• Clothing – used adult (less than $100)
• Coffee shops
• Commercial Leases
• Compost
• Computer servicing
• Concert Tickets
• Condo management fees
• Consulting services
• Conveyance fees
• Delivery Services
• Dietary supplements
• Dry cleaning
• Driving Range fees
• Electronics repair
• Energy equipment
• Esthetician Services
• Fast food – Beverages
• Fire extinguishers
• First aid kits
• Fishing charters
• Fitness Club memberships
• Fitness Trainers
• Food producing trees and plants
• Freight (in BC)
• Funeral services
• Golf fees
• Grass Cutting
• Hair cuts
• Hall rental
• Health equipment
• Helmets
• Hockey tickets
• Hockey rink rentals
• Home appraisals
• Home inspections
• Home maintenance
• Home renovations (Labour)
• Horse Boarding
• Horse Shows
• Horse riding lessons
• House Cleaning services
• Insulation
• Interior design services
• Investment Counseling fees
• Landscaping
• Life jackets
• Limousine rentals
• Magazines/ newspapers
• Marketing services
• Massage therapy
• Membership fees
• Moorage
• Museum admissions
• Movies / Theatre
• Moving Costs
• Music MP3 downloads
• Naturopathy
• New Homes (some rebates applicable)
• Nicotine replacements
• Non-prescription meds
• Painting
• Parking
• Photography
• Postage
• Private Bus fares
• Printing
• Rail travel (originating in BC)
• Real estate fees
• Reflexology
• Rentals for Weddings, Canopy, Tuxedo etc.
• Reroofing House
• Restaurant meals
• RV parks
• Safety equipment (Not all safety and Energy Equipment is affected)
• School supplies
• Shoe repairs
• Skiing
• Smoke detectors
• Snow removal
• Solar power
• Some groceries
• Spa services
• Sports Training / Lessons
• Storage lockers
• Tailoring
• Taxi fares
• Telephone (Basic Charge for landlines will be affected)
• Theatre admissions
• Veterinarian
• Video downloads
• Vitamins
• Wedding Planner
• Windows (energy star)
• Rentals / Strata fees (Though they are HST exempt, most people will notice increases brought on by an increase in maintenance costs and other costs associated with owning Rental and Strata properties)
• Used cars / trucks / boats / non-turbine aircraft (Private Sale will have an additional 5% tax, it is not called HST)