Nickel Belt NDP MPP France Gélinas has joined her colleague Jill Andrews (Toronto-St. Paul’s) in co-sponsoring a bill to eliminate HST from registered psychotherapists’ services
Nickel Belt NDP MPP France Gélinas has joined her colleague Jill Andrews in co-sponsoring a bill to eliminate HST from “essential mental health services.”
The bill, called Make Psychotherapy Tax-Free Act, 2023, would remove what they describe in a media release as “the unfair tax treatment levied against registered psychotherapists as the only mental health professionals that have to charge their clients 13 per cent HST on the essential mental health services they provide.”
“Unfortunately, nearly none of the 23 recommendations have been implemented. The demand for mental health services is steadily increasing. While Registered Psychotherapists and mental health professionals have demanded this change in tax treatment for a decade now, the reality facing our province right now means the government must finally act on it."