DEEP PURPLE - Ian Gillan's New Solo Album Being Mixed
December 10, 2010, 13 years ago
According to Karen Bliss from Billboard.biz, engineer Nick Blagona is mixing DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan's new solo album at Jukasa Studios - a tax-free, state-of-the-art recording studio built on a native reserve in Canada saves non-native Canadians money and non-residents hassle.
Jukasa Studios, a $4 million resort facility on the Six Nations of the Grand River in the village of Ohsweken, Ontario, an hour from downtown Toronto, is exempt from charging Ontario's 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
The studio, owned by prominent Six Nations businessman Ken Hill, whose company Grand River Enterprises manufactures and sells cigarettes worldwide, is the only one of its kind on a reserve in Canada.
"It's a very unusual situation," says Toronto's D. Jae Gold, an entertainment chartered accountant with many music clients. "The studio is on the Indian reserve and they're exempt from the HST system. So when they charge, say $10,000, because you were in the studio for a month and made a record, they would then add HST at 0%.
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