E-7746 Tax deduction for golf expenses Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7746 — Tax deduction for golf expenses — with 8 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Gabriel Hardy. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7746
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: January 23, 2027
- Sponsor: Gabriel Hardy (Montmorency—Charlevoix)
- Category: Taxation
Signature Statistics
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 3 signatures
- Quebec: 3 signatures
- Alberta: 1 signatures
- British Columbia: 1 signatures
Petition Text
Petition to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Whereas:
• Paragraph 18(1)(l)(i) of the Income Tax Act specifically excludes golf courses from the business entertainment expense deduction available to Canadian businesses;
• Canadian businesses may claim a 50% deduction for entertainment expenses incurred at restaurants, sporting events, concerts, and other activities, but a round of golf with clients is excluded; and
• Modernizing this provision does not create a new tax benefit, it simply corrects an inequity by aligning the tax treatment of golf with other comparable activities that are already eligible for the deduction.
We, the undersigned, Residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of Finance and National Revenue to amend paragraph 18(1)(l)(i) of the Income Tax Act to allow businesses to deduct 50% of legitimate business entertainment expenses related to green fees and power cart fees at golf facilities, consistent with the tax treatment afforded to other eligible forms of business entertainment. This change would not provide golf with preferential tax treatment. Rather, it would remove the current inequity and provide golf-related business entertainment with treatment consistent with other eligible business entertainment expenses. The amendment would be positive for local small business across Canada. We therefore urge the Government of Canada to modernize this more than 50-year-old provision and ensure that Canadian businesses and golf facilities are treated fairly and consistently within Canada’s tax system.
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