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EHF FEES - BC

Commencing July 1/2012, The BC Recycling Regulation requires industry managed and funded product take back and recycling programs for specified product categories. Program costs include the collection system, processing and recycling of the collected material, communications and administration. The program is funded by “Environmental Handling Fees (EHF)” paid to CESA by its industry members, based on the number of these products sold by the program member in BC.

These EHF fees have been applicable to electronics since Oct 2011 but as of July 1/12 the list has been expanded to include:

  • TESTING & MEASUREMENT TOOLS
  • HAND-HELD POWER TOOLS
  • BENCH-TOP, DEMOLITION, FREE-STANDING POWER TOOLS
  • SEWING/TEXTILE MACHINES
  • EXERCISE MACHINES
  • SPORTS, LEISURE, ARTS, CRAFTS, HOBBY DEVICES

Below is a link to a detailed product list:

http://www.cesarecycling.ca/cesa-documents/CESA-2-Fee-and-Product-List.pdf

These will be required to be setup as an inviro fee (tax 7 or tax 8) and the fees are taxable. HST (or in the future, GST and PST) will be applied to the fees. There is no requirement to track, report, or submit these fees to the government. The fee may be shown separately on the product receipt, incorporated directly into the price of the product or absorbed.

training/ehf_fees_bc_-_july_1_2012.txt · Last modified: 2012/06/22 10:32 (12 years ago) by tanya