P.E.I. massage therapists welcome federal plan to remove tax on massage

The federal government has proposed removing the GST/HST from some massage therapy. The GST/HST is a sales tax. In P.E.I., it is 15%. The plan was in the recent federal budget but is not law yet. The P.E.I. Massage Therapy Association likes the plan. Its president, Stacey MacLeod, says massage is the last major health therapy still taxed. Physiotherapy and chiropractic care are not taxed. She says the change would make treatment cost less. Patients' health benefit money would also last longer. Therapists would lose some tax credits for their business costs. For now, therapists must keep charging the tax.