{"id":64005,"date":"2019-03-30T06:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=64005"},"modified":"2019-03-30T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T11:55:58","slug":"huntsvilles-accommodation-tax-kicks-in-this-monday-april-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsvilles-accommodation-tax-kicks-in-this-monday-april-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville&#8217;s accommodation tax kicks in this Monday, April 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cost of staying in a Huntsville hotel will increase by four per cent starting April 1, 2019, when a new accommodation tax is implemented.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The three-year pilot project is set to charge the tax on short-term accommodations in the municipality. Accommodation providers such as hotels, motels, inns and bed and breakfast establishments will be required to charge the fee and remit it monthly to the Ontario Restaurant, Hotel and Motel Association, which will then distribute the funds\u201430 per cent of those funds will go directly to the municipality while the other 70 per cent will go to a non-share capital corporation which will act as the Town\u2019s designated \u201cTourism Entity,\u201d according to a staff report.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Directors for the tourism entity will have four representatives from the Huntsville Hotel and Motel Association (HHMA), one representative from the Downtown Huntsville Business Improvement Area (BIA), one representative from the Huntsville\/Lake of Bays Chamber of Commerce, and one representative from the Town of Huntsville. To date, its members are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jesse Hamilton &#8211; Deerhurst Resort (HHMA)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Doughty &#8211; Hidden Valley Resort (HHMA)<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Phillips &#8211; Holiday Inn Express (HHMA)<\/li>\n<li>Kaushal Gandhi &#8211; Rainbow Inn (HHMA)<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Suddaby &#8211; 3 Guys and a Stove (Chamber)<\/li>\n<li>Christine Kropp \u2013 Whimsical Bakery (BIA)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Aitchison, Nancy Alcock as alternate (Town)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But some smaller resorts have expressed concerns about the fee, stating that it would put them at an unfair disadvantage compared to similar resorts in other Muskoka municipalities that don\u2019t have to contend with the added charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In view of this, until such time that the majority of &#8216;American Plan&#8217; and &#8216;Housekeeping Resorts&#8217; in other Muskoka Area Municipalities are subject to this tax, Cedar Grove Lodge and Clyffe House Resort should remain exempt from the provisions of the by-law,&#8221; noted the Town\u2019s Economic Development Coordinator, Scott Ovell, in a report last September, which was endorsed by council. The two resorts, at least for now, will be exempt from having to collect the tax from their patrons when April 1, 2019 rolls around. Others, like Airbnb and other businesses perceived as benefitting from Huntsville tourism, may be added later.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of the tourism entity is expected to begin meeting the first week of April and meet at least once a month for the first six months while it addresses things like its corporate bylaws, governance documents, its service agreement with the Town and things like its Tourism Master Plan, according to Ovell&#8217;s March 25 report to council.<\/p>\n<p>The sum of $750,000 has been bandied about as the amount that could be generated from the tax for all things related to supporting economic development in Huntsville by attracting and supporting more tourism to the area.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the municipal portion of the funds, it could be used to enhance existing infrastructure such as a hockey arena in order to host tourism-related events, said Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an arena for the citizens of this community, but it also serves the purpose of making it possible for us to do tourism-related things,&#8221; said Aitchison, who used hockey tournaments as an example. &#8220;You work out what sort of percentage of the facility is related to tourism and if there are specific projects that you want to do to the place because you want to host a tourism-related event, you can use a portion of the funds for that kind of thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the tax would benefit Huntsville taxpayers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>We&#8217;re effectively moving some of the tax burden off the property taxpayer and onto this sort of consumption-based system, and I think that&#8217;s actually very good tax policy. You know the people that are working two or three part-time jobs, serving tables at Deerhurst trying to pay their property tax shouldn&#8217;t be asked to pay more property tax so they can get more people to serve. There&#8217;s a better way of doing that than taxing people struggling already to pay their property tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for smaller businesses concerned that an additional fee would impact them adversely, Aitchison said, &#8220;A rising tide lifts all boats. The fact of the matter is if Huntsville is busier then they&#8217;re going to be busier too. If Huntsville is busier and some hotel is not busier as well, well then they probably need to look at what they&#8217;re doing, not what the Town is doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Huntsville accommodation providers having to compete with other providers in Muskoka who do not have the tax, Aitchison argued that Huntsville will have more money to market itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we&#8217;re charging it, we&#8217;re going to be generating probably upwards of a million dollars and that money will be invested in marketing this community and creating new events that people are going to come to. There may be some people that choose not to come here because we do it, but I use the example of places like Niagara Falls which has done it for years&#8230; I&#8217;ve heard people say well Niagara Falls I don&#8217;t go there, and I say well that&#8217;s fine but you know who does go there? Millions of people because they market the heck out of the place,&#8221; said Aitchison.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have questions or comments about this tax? You can pose them to municipal staff on the Town&#8217;s new community engagement site at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myhuntsville.ca\/MAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">myhuntsville.ca\/MAT<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related story: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Municipal Accommodation Tax \u2018greatest economic development tool Huntsville has seen in decades\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/municipal-accommodation-tax-greatest-economic-development-tool-huntsville-has-seen-in-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Municipal Accommodation Tax \u2018greatest economic development tool Huntsville has seen in decades\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of staying in a Huntsville hotel will increase by four per cent starting April 1, 2019, when a new accommodation tax is implemented. 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