P.E.I. massage therapists welcome federal proposal to remove GST/HST from massage therapy

The P.E.I. Massage Therapy Association is welcoming a proposal in the recent federal budget to remove the GST/HST from qualifying massage therapy services. It is not yet law. Association president Stacey MacLeod said massage therapy is the last major regulated therapy still taxed, unlike physiotherapy and chiropractic care, and that dropping the 15 per cent tax would make treatment more affordable and stretch patients' health benefits. Therapists would lose input tax credits on business costs. MacLeod said therapists should keep charging the tax until legislation passes and the Canada Revenue Agency sets rules. P.E.I.'s 2019 regulation helped the profession qualify.