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N.B. woman starts petition against funeral tax PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Last Updated Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:34:36 EST
CBC News

A New Brunswick woman, who was outraged to learn she had to pay sales tax on the cost of her son's funeral, has started a campaign to have the federal government drop the tax.
Bonnie Hourihan said she was traumatized by the suicide of her 19-year-old son in October and then found out she had to pay more than $900 in sales tax for his funeral.

"I was appalled," said Hourihan, who lives in Saint John. "I was just outraged that the government was going to collect that amount of money because my son died.

"It's wrong. It's just wrong."

Funeral services are subject to the federal goods and services tax (GST), but not to provincial sales tax in most provinces.

However, when three of the Atlantic provinces signed on to the harmonized sales tax (HST), which combines the provincial sales tax and the GST, Ottawa was given the right to decide what items were taxable. Funerals were included.

'It's disrespectful to our dead'

Since federal tax laws would have to be changed in order to exempt funerals from the HST, Hourihan has started a petition to try to get Parliament to make the move.

"I'm going to take this petition to the House of Commons and have it a non-taxable item. Funeral services should not be taxed. I'm sorry, it's disrespectful to our dead."

In three days, Hourihan has collected more than 350 signatures.

She asked the federal election candidates in her riding to sign her petition and said all but the Liberal candidate agreed.

Funeral homes tried to fight tax but failed

John Doyle, managing director of Brennan's Funeral Home in Saint John, said a national association of funeral homes pushed for an exemption when the HST was introduced, but didn't prevail.

He said Hourihan's petition might persuade Ottawa to create the provision.

"There two things you can't escape are death and taxes, but maybe we can work to get some of the taxes out of it," Doyle said.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/01/14/funeral-tax-060114.html
 
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