{"id":11002,"date":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/cfoa-in-the-news-federal-tariff-should-be-axed-ferry-lobby-group-sa\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:00:00","slug":"cfoa-in-the-news-federal-tariff-should-be-axed-ferry-lobby-group-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/cfoa-in-the-news-federal-tariff-should-be-axed-ferry-lobby-group-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"CFOA in the News: Federal tariff should be axed, ferry lobby group says"},"content":{"rendered":"

N.L. taxpayers could be on hook for $25-million levy on 2 new ships<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 29, 2014\u00a0- CBC<\/p>\n

A national association for ferry operators says Ottawa should get rid of a tariff on new passenger vessels imported into the country.<\/p>\n

As CBC Investigates revealed this week, taxpayers in Newfoundland and Labrador could be on the hook for a federal levy of $25 million when two new ferries are delivered within a year or so.<\/p>\n

But Serge Buy, CEO of the Canadian Ferry Association, says the tariff no longer serves a useful purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to rethink this strategy, and the government needs to change the tariff \u2014\u00a0actually, cancel the tariff \u2014 right now,\u201d Buy said.<\/p>\n

Buy says the Canadian shipyards the tariff is meant to protect are doing well, as they have received significant support from Ottawa through the federal procurement system.<\/p>\n

25-per-cent tariff rate<\/h2>\n

The 25-per-cent tariff applies to smaller ferries, under 129 metres, imported into the country.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, Ottawa rolled back the tariff on bigger ships. But smaller ones still get hit with the duty.<\/p>\n

The Newfoundland and Labrador government is buying two new smaller ferries from Europe, to serve Bell Island and the Fogo Island\/Change Islands run.<\/p>\n

The total cost is just over $100 million. But unless the province can convince Ottawa to waive the tariff, Newfoundland and Labrador taxpayers will have to pay another $25 million in federal duties when the vessels are delivered.<\/p>\n

Buy says that's not fair.<\/p>\n

\"Our statement is simple: why would taxpayers of Newfoundland, why would fare-payers who go on ships right now in Newfoundland and Labrador, have to pay extra amount just to support something that doesn't need the support right now,\" Buy said.<\/p>\n

The province has applied to Ottawa to have the tariff waived. Transportation Minister David Brazil told CBC Investigates this week he is confident that will happen.<\/p>\n

Buy says he doesn\u2019t know exactly how many waiver requests are successful. \u201cI would think it\u2019s very, very low.\u201d<\/p>\n

The association is lobbying to have the tariff removed on all ferries imported into the country.<\/p>\n

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N.L. taxpayers could be on hook for $25-million levy on 2 new ships November 29, 2014\u00a0- CBC A national association for ferry operators says Ottawa should get rid of a tariff on new passenger vessels imported into the country. As CBC Investigates revealed this week, taxpayers in Newfoundland and Labrador could be on the hook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}