TORONTO — Jakub Lipinski recounts a long-running joke in Ontario's Niagara Region: if you want to make a small fortune in wine, you start with a big fortune.
Lipinski, whose family runs Big Head Wines, was recently at the Ontario legislature to show support for a private member's bill local New Democrat representative Wayne Gates plans to introduce in the fall to eliminate a tax on wineries.
Gates' bill, which he also introduced in 2020 but which did not go anywhere before the legislature prorogued a year later, would eliminate a 6.1-per-cent basic tax on all on-site retail sales of 100 per cent Ontario wines. "The change is long overdue. Frankly, policies like this keep our local wineries and industry down. For far too long, our domestic wineries have been overlooked and outright ignored."
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