British Columbia

RCC and members met with B.C.’s Attorney-General and Minister of Public Safety in early May 2022, to highlight our concern about the violence impacting retail businesses. The Ministers referred RCC ...Learn More

The province has released a paper discussing potential changes to the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act that would impact various categories of retail. Most relevant for a wide array of r...Learn More

As a reminder for members selling heat pumps in B.C., as of April 1, 2022, they are exempt from provincial sales tax. Heat pumps include: electric heat pumps, renewable fuel-powered heat pumps, fossil...Learn More

WorkSafeBC has posted the presentation on their 2023 rate changes on their website (WorkSafeBC login required). The information will be useful for those employers seeking to understand significant rat...Learn More

British Columbia’s finance Committee has recommended reviewing their online marketplace tax following an RCC presentation to the Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance and Government Serv...Learn More

The B.C. government is having an online survey (as a substitute for a consultation process) to determine support for various potential actions to mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day. Buried in ...Learn More

The latest revisions to B.C.’s provincial sales tax mean kefir and elastic hosiery are now exempt from PST. Meanwhile, British Columbia now charges 7% PST on the purchase price of tobacco (which...Learn More

Sidney’s bylaw, set to come into effect on January 1, 2023, bans plastic checkout bags (with standard exemptions), as well as foam containers for use with take-out/prepared food, plastic drinking st...Learn More

Post updated as of August 4, 2022 RCC has a Plastics Committee to which updates on single-use bag (cup, straw and utensil) bylaws are posted.  BC has had an amount of recent activity by local gov...Learn More

The B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy is expected to begin the stakeholder information process in regard to expansion of B.C.’s “extended producer responsibility” regime (...Learn More