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Originally Posted by ken0042
Hmmm, I see that you are correct. I'm just wondering if that was changed at some point; because when I worked at a hotel in the mid 90's we were told to stop handing the forms out because people were getting mad about not being able to claim the tax back from their hotel bill.
One thing I just thought of; previously you needed to spend $715 before you would get a refund. Now the amount is $834 because GST went down. (Minimum rebate is $50.) The conspiracy theorist in my wonders if somebody in gov't saw that most claims were for just over $50, and they would be paying out a lot less anyways; that by saying they are scrapping the program are they really just finding a way to say they saved money; when that money would never have been spent anyways.
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The minumum rebate is not $50. Each reciept has to be $50 before tax. Anything under will not be considered as it would take the people who go through the reciepts to long to look at $5 receipts. The total claim has to be $200 dollars, meaning you only have to spend $200 to make a claim. So either 4 reciepts of $50 or 1 reciept of $200.
From what I understand, they were paying out about 70 million a year. I wonder if that cost included the operating costs to run the program.