Meeting with the MP:

Meeting with the MP

scoregolf.com 24 Feb '12, 2pm

Meeting with the MP:

On Thursday, I spent some time with my member of parliament, Bernard Trottier. The purpose was to try and bring him up to speed on the golf industry's push to have green fees related to a business expense made deductable. For the uninitiated, NAGA - the National Alliance of Golf Associations, a joint group of the major golf associations in the country - has been lobbying the federal government to try and overturn a 1971 tax reform that does not allow deductions for expenses incurred by business people entertaining clients at golf courses. As it presently stands, you can take a client out to a hockey game and write off 50 per cent of the cost of the tickets. But if you take a client out to play golf and talk business, you can't deduct that. It's simply not a fair playing field; golf is being singled out and that affects the business of golf in this country. NAGA's work has ...

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@SobermanTax » 25 Feb '12, 4am
Never will happen. Political nightmare RT @SobermanSports: Golf association pushing MP's to make golf dues deductible [link]”
@adam_stanley » 25 Feb '12, 12am
Loved reading this by @Bobatscoregolf who met with his MP (@btrottier) to talk about Golf & Taxation in Canada - [link]
@scrummer24 » 24 Feb '12, 5pm
“@TheGolfCanada @bobatscoregolf met with his local MP @btrottier penned this blog: [link] #growgolf” @pmharper #befair
@RickSCOREGolf » 24 Feb '12, 4pm
RT @foxcreekgolf: “@Bobatscoregolf: Meeting with the MP: [link]” Great to see influential golf people doing their part to tell the story.
@foxcreekgolf » 24 Feb '12, 4pm
“@Bobatscoregolf: Meeting with the MP: [link]” Great to see influential golf people doing their part to tell the story.
@SobermanSports » 24 Feb '12, 4pm
Golf association pushing MP's to make golf fees deductable and provide the same tax treatment as hockey game and dinner [link]
@TheGolfCanada » 24 Feb '12, 3pm
Kudos to SCOREGolf's Bob Weeks @bobatscoregolf who met with his local MP @btrottier and penned this blog: [link] #growgolf
@RickSCOREGolf » 24 Feb '12, 2pm
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@Flagstick » 24 Feb '12, 2pm
Nice work by @Bobatscoregolf meeting his MP to talk about Golf & Taxation in Canada. Column is here: [link] Paging Ted Hsu...
@GolfProYYC » 24 Feb '12, 4pm
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