For a number of years, or subsequent to the past couple of years, HST was not a concern. I guess in excess of 95% of seal product is exported out of Canada to Europe or Asia or whatever. Of course, there is no HST on our exports.
I know as a company, a few years ago we had an exemption permit from the Canada Revenue Agency not to pay HST because we were exporting our product. Of course, when you export your product, you don't charge HST to your buyers in a foreign country. If we would have had to pay HST, we would have paid it to the sealer, the sealer would have remitted it to the government, and we would have claimed it back on our input tax credit. It's simply money going around in circles.
Right now there have been many, many audits taking place on sealers who did not claim the HST, or did not collect the HST from the companies. They're saying now you must pay the HST that you failed to collect. I mean, it's a non-issue, in my opinion. It's just paperwork.