{"id":1397,"date":"2007-03-17T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T02:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/17\/gst-rebate-program-cut-devastating-business-owner\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T02:15:37","slug":"gst-rebate-program-cut-devastating-business-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/17\/gst-rebate-program-cut-devastating-business-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"GST rebate program cut devastating: business owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?657\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal government decision to cancel the GST Visitors&#8217; Rebate Program could devastate the region&#8217;s, and the country&#8217;s, economy, says a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which was completed by CRA International and commissioned by Global Refund Canada, says if the program is cancelled April 1, the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product would be reduced about $114 million per year, and 1,900 jobs would be lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A federal government decision to cancel the GST Visitors&#8217; Rebate Program could devastate the region&#8217;s, and the country&#8217;s, economy, says a new study. The study, which was completed by CRA International and commissioned by Global Refund Canada, says if the program is cancelled April 1, the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}