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Massive CRA Data Breaches, Millions Paid in Bogus Refunds
To quote the CBC October 28, 2024 article:
In a report to Parliament in June, the privacy commissioner reported 71 breaches at the CRA in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. In the previous three years, 42 privacy breaches had been reported.
Those numbers have since exploded.
In answers to questions from The Fifth Estate/Radio-Canada, the CRA admitted it has been hit with more than 31,468 "material" privacy breaches from March 2020 to December 2023, affecting 62,000 individual Canadian taxpayers.
Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget
The deadline for submitting written briefs through the committee’s website is no later than Friday, August 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Written briefs must be no longer than 2,000 words and should adhere to the following template. All text contained in the written brief, including – but not limited to – graphs, quotes, images and footnotes will count towards the limit of 2,000 words. Only one written brief per organization or individual will be accepted. Written briefs that do not meet these requirements may not be considered by the committee. Following translation, the written briefs will be posted on the committee’s website. All those who submit a written brief will be considered as having made a request to appear.
2024 Federal Budget - Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Federal Budgets and Economic Updates
COVID-19 Financial Relief for Canadians - Legislation
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parliamentary Budget Office COVID-19 Analysis
Budget-Related Resources
Department of Finance Budget website
Department of Finance draft legislation
House of Commons Sitting Calendar
ParlVU - Live streaming of House of Commons proceedings and public committees. Prior videos can be viewed by going to Calendar-Day/Month and choosing a date on which the House of Commons was in session.
Hansard - official record of what is said by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons - very frustrating/disappointing to read much of the time
Fiscal Monitor - monthly reports
Consolidated Statutes and Regulations of Canada
Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act R.S.C., 1985, C. F-8 - re equalization payments to provinces, health transfers, sales tax harmonization, etc.
Canadian Government News Releases
Department of Finance News Releases
Department of Finance Archived News Releases
Financial Data
Parliamentary Budget Officer - independent analysis to Parliament on the state of the nation's finances, the government's estimates and trends in the Canadian economy; and upon request, estimates the cost of any proposal under Parliament's jurisdiction.
Government of Canada Infobase - interactive data-visualization tool, information on government finances, people, and results. Contains years worth of federal government data.
Federal Budgets & Related Legislation
2024 Federal Budget - Tuesday, April 16, 2024
2023 Fall Economic Statement - November 21, 2023
2023 Federal Budget - March 28, 2023
2022 Federal Budget & Fall Economic Statement - November 3, 2022
2021 Economic and Fiscal Update - December 14, 2021
2021 Federal Budget - April 19, 2021
2020 Fall Economic Statement - November 30, 2020
2020 Economic and Fiscal Snapshot - July 8, 2020
2019 Federal Budget - March 19, 2019
2018 Fall Economic Statement - November 21, 2018
2018 and Earlier Federal Budgets
2024 Federal Budget - April 16, 2024
2023 Fall Economic Statement (FES) - November 21, 2023
There is no plan for a balanced budget at any time in the future. Projected Budgetary Deficits:
 | 2022-23 $43.0 billion |
| 2023-24 $40.1 billion |
| 2024-25 $35.0 billion |
| 2025-26 $26.8 billion |
| 2026-27 $15.8 billion |
| 2027-28 $14.0 billion |
See Canada's debt charges are ballooning as Freeland tables a gloomy fall economic statement, which states The federal debt has doubled from $619.3 billion in 2015-16, the first year of Trudeau's government, to $1.2 trillion last year. It's expected to climb to $1.4 trillion by 2028-29.
Legislation Tabled Subsequent to the FES:
December 2023 Draft Legislative Proposals and Explanatory Notes
| Investment Tax Credits for Clean Hydrogen and Clean Technology Manufacturing |
| Concessional Loans |
| Short-Term Rentals |
| International Shipping |
Bill C-59, Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 - Royal Assent June 20, 2024
| Notice of Ways and Means Motion and Explanatory Notes |
Proposed Changes to Underused Housing Tax:
| specified Canadian corporations, partnerships and trusts will not have to file the UHT return, starting with the return for the 2023 calendar year (must still file for the 2022 calendar year) - legislation not tabled as of Feb 29/24, but definition of excluded owner modified in form UHT-2900 to effect this change. | ||||
| minimum penalties reduced
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| See Underused Housing Tax in the 2023 Fall Economic Statement. |
Proposal to Crack Down on Non-Compliant Short-Term Rentals
Non-legislated Measure - New Canadian Mortgage Charter
Introduction of The New Canadian Mortgage Charter. This is not law and will not be enacted into law. It simply provides guidelines that Canadian financial institutions are expected to follow. Most of the rules in it are based on the Guideline on Existing Consumer Mortgage Loans in Exceptional Circumstances, from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.
For information on more tax measures, see Baker Tilly 2023 Fall Economic Statement: Tax Measures.
Department of Finance: 2023 Fall Economic Statement
2023 Federal Budget - March 28, 2023
2022 Federal Budget & Fall Economic Statement
2021 Economic and Fiscal Update - December 14, 2021
- above is link to the Federal Budget website.
There was no mention of a change to the capital gains inclusion rate.
Bill C-8, An Act to implement certain provisions of the economic and fiscal update, received Royal Assent June 9, 2022, including the following measures:
| Income Tax Act and Regulations:
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| Underused Housing Tax Act enacted
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| Provision for a 6-year limitation or prescription period for recovery of amounts owing re CEBA loan program established by Export Development Canada | ||||||||
| Authorization of payments to be made for supporting ventilation improvement projects in schools | ||||||||
| Authorization of payments to be made to provinces & territories for support of COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination initiatives | ||||||||
| Authorization of payments re government expenses incurred re COVID-19 tests. | ||||||||
| Employment Insurance Act amendments to specify maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid in a benefit period to certain seasonal workers. |
Tax Measures Proposed
| Enhancing
the home office expense deduction
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| Enhanced
support for teachers
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| Small
Business Air Quality Improvement Tax Credit
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| Underused
Housing Tax
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| Returning
proceeds from pollution pricing directly to farmers
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November 2021 Legislation Tabled
Bill C-2 An Act to provide further support in response to COVID-19 received Royal Assent December 17, 2021 with the following provisions:
Business Supports
| Canada Recovery Hiring Program (CRHP) extended until May 7, 2022, with increased subsidy rate. | ||||||
| Targeted supports:
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Worker Supports
| Extend Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB) and Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB) until May 7, 2022 and increase duration of each by 2 weeks. |
| New Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit to provide $300 per week in income support to workers impacted by a COVID-19-related public health lockdown in their region, up until May 7, 2022. This benefit is retroactive to October 24, 2021. |
November 24, 2021 News Release re above.
2021 Federal Budget - April 19, 2021
2020 Federal Budget
The 2020 Federal Budget was scheduled to be tabled Monday, March 30, 2020, but was postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19. However, 5 bills have been tabled, with 3 receiving Royal Assent.
2020 Fall Economic Statement - November 30, 2020
The 2020-2021 deficit is expected to reach $381.6 billion, and deficits in the billions are expected to continue until at least 2025-2026. There is no mention of debt reduction or balanced budgets.
No changes to personal or corporate income tax were introduced.
See the Video Tax News summary of measures in the Fall Economic Statement.
For more detail, see:
Fall Economic Statement - Department of Finance
- Full Report in pdf format - Table of Contents has hyperlinks to the topics, which is quite helpful. Legislative proposals start at page 200.
- Tax Measures: Supplementary Information
Bill C-14, Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2020, was tabled on Dec 2, 2020, to implement measures announced in the Economic Statement. See the News Release. Bill C-14 provides for the government to increase total borrowing under the Borrowing Authority Act to $1.831 trillion. The maximum borrowing allowed in 2018 was $1.168 trillion.
Bill C-14 received Royal Assent on May 6, 2021.
See Parliamentary Budget Officer information on The Borrowing Authority Act and Measures of Federal Debt.
TaxTips.ca Resources re Fall Economic Statement measures:
| Canada Child Benefit - 2021 additional benefits |
| Home Office Expense Deduction - simplified |
The Throne Speech was delivered on September 23, 2020, outlining in general the government proposals. See a good summary of the proposals prepared by Video Tax News.
See information on Bill C-2 tabled September 24, 2020, which includes 3 benefits to replace CERB, as well as a provision to give the Government authority to spend up to $17.1 billion on specific measures from Oct-Dec 2020.
July 8, 2020 Economic and Fiscal Snapshot
The Economic and Fiscal Snapshot summarized all COVID-19 financial relief. The deficit is projected to be $343.2 billion for the 2020-21 fiscal year. There were no tax changes announced. We've updated the estimated March 31, 2021 interest-bearing debt amount in our Federal Debt article.
2019 Legislative Proposals
Amateur Athletic Trusts
December 20, 2019 Notice of Ways and Means Motion and Explanatory Notes to extend the maturation period of these trusts from eight years to nine years. Trusts that would mature in 2019 would now mature in 2020.
Personal Tax Credits
December 9, 2019 Notice of Ways and Means Motion and Explanatory Notes re increases for 2020 and subsequent years to the
- basic personal amount - details of amounts in future years
- spousal amount and
These changes also automatically affect Yukon territorial income tax due to the wording of their Income Tax Act. The Yukon government has not indicated whether they will amend their legislation so that the changes do not affect Yukon territorial tax.
The Detailed Canadian Tax and RRSP Savings Calculator for 2019/2020 has been revised to include the proposed legislation. These proposals are subject to legislative approval. We have included them because the Bloc have indicated they will support the minority government on this change. We have not included the same change for the Yukon territorial income tax yet.
2019 Federal Budget March 19, 2019
2018 Fall Economic Statement November 21, 2018 - on Department of Finance website. Main points:
- No personal income tax changes
- full immediate cost write-off for machinery and equipment purchased after November 20, 2018 and used in the manufacturing and processing of goods
- full immediate cost write-off for specified clean energy equipment purchased after November 20, 2018
- $800 million to be added to the Strategic Innovation Fund over 5 years, with $100 million to be focussed on providing support to the forest sector.
- See November 21, 2018 Notice of Ways and Means Motion and Explanatory Notes for more details.
2018 and Earlier Federal Budgets
2018 Federal Budget February 27, 2018 and Subsequent Legislation
2017 Small Business Tax Changes - Tax On Split Income / Income Sprinkling
2018 Federal Budget - Pre-Budget Consultations - on Department of Finance website. No end date for the consultation period has yet been announced.
2017 Fall Economic Statement October 24, 2017
2017 Federal Budget - March 22, 2017 and July 18, 2017 Proposed Tax Changes for Private Corporations
2016 Fall Economic Statement November 1, 2016 - on Department of Finance Budget website
2016 Federal Budget March 22, 2016
Legislative Proposals Prior to 2016 Budget
2015 Federal Budget April 21, 2015
October 2014 Federal Update - new Family Tax Cut, UCCB increased, Child Tax Credit eliminated, Child Care Expense Deduction increased
2014 Federal Budget / Economic Action Plan February 11, 2014
2013 Federal Budget / Economic action plan - March 21, 2013
2012 Federal Budget - March 29, 2012 - and subsequent legislation
2011 Federal Budget - June 6, 2011
2009 Federal Budget - Canada's Economic Action Plan
2008 Federal Budget and 2008 Economic and Fiscal Statement
Revised: October 28, 2024