City to stop requesting sales information from local cannabis retailers
The City of Grande Prairie is looking to change the rules on cannabis reporting for retailers.
At the Infrastructure Economic Development meeting on May 26, it was decided that Administration stop requesting sales information from cannabis retailers and change the Business License Bylaw to remove the requirement for cannabis sales reporting.
City Councillor Dylan Bressey says that previously, the requirements were made by the City due to the federal government sharing 75 per cent of the excise taxes from the sales of cannabis with the province, and the province’s decision to not share that revenue with municipalities.
“Even though, the federal government said it’s expectation was that that tax gets shared with municipalities. So, Council asked for this information, back when we were creating our regulations around cannabis retailers, we could get a sense of how much tax revenue was being generated within Grande Prairie, so we could advocate for it to get to spending within our local community.”