{"id":6712,"date":"2024-12-14T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T23:37:18","slug":"gst-hst-holiday-now-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"GST\/HST Holiday Now Active"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The GST\/HST Holiday is now active up to February 15th, 2025 on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/news\/2024\/11\/more-money-in-your-pocket-a-tax-break-for-all-canadians.html\" target=\"_blank\">multiple products<\/a>, including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/import\/tax-break-allegement-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">selected imported items<\/a>. And although music recordings are not exempt from GST\/HST during this period, printed biographies, audio books on compact disc, printed books on music education (music theory\/instruction) and printed books on home recording and the music industry are exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, &#8220;<strong>Music Production 2024+ Edition: Everything You Need To Know About Producing, Studio Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Songwriting in 2024 &amp; Beyond<\/strong>&#8221; is available on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VD26bP\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Canada<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/en-ca\/music-production-2024-edition-everything-you-need-to-know-about-producing-studio-recording-mixing-mastering-and-songwriting-in-2024-beyond-2-book-bundle\/9798868996801.html?searchType=products&amp;searchTerm=music%20production%202024%2B\" target=\"_blank\">Indigo Canada<\/a>, tax free, as is the &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gxUSxO\" target=\"_blank\">The History of Canadian Rock &#8216;N&#8217; Roll<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DjSP2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic: The Nation&#8217;s Music Station<\/a>&#8221; and the <strong>Martin Short<\/strong> autobiography &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4iEkJ92\" target=\"_blank\">I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedian<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3BDhQ7J\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Canada<\/a> has just created a site on which tax free items are listed, including some <strong>children&#8217;s toys<\/strong>, <strong>video games<\/strong> and <strong>video game consoles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GST\/HST Holiday is now active up to February 15th, 2025 on multiple products, including selected imported items. And although music recordings are not exempt from GST\/HST during this period, printed biographies, audio books on compact disc, printed books on music education (music theory\/instruction) and printed books on home recording and the music industry are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}