e-1614 (Income tax system)
- Keywords
- C-399, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (disability tax credit)
- Diabetes
- Disability tax credit
- Rare and orphan diseases
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
- The purpose of the disability tax credit (DTC) is to provide for greater tax equity by allowing some relief for disability costs, since these are unavoidable additional expenses that other taxpayers don’t have to face;
- Only 40 per cent of the more than 1.8 million people who live with severe disability in Canada use the federal DTC, meaning that most Canadians with qualifying disabilities are not accessing the credit;
- In 2017, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) began restricting access to the DTC that affected hundreds of Canadians living with diabetes and other rare diseases by changing the interpretation of the rules around life-sustaining therapy and associated requirements for these diseases; and
- In the case of life-sustaining therapy that requires a regular dosage, considerable time is spent on activities directly related to the determination of that dosage of medical food and medical formula.
- Open for signature
- March 29, 2018, at 3:16 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- July 27, 2018, at 3:16 p.m. (EDT)
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 121 |
British Columbia | 48 |
Manitoba | 9 |
New Brunswick | 5 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 5 |
Northwest Territories | 1 |
Nova Scotia | 6 |
Ontario | 52 |
Prince Edward Island | 1 |
Quebec | 10 |
Saskatchewan | 18 |
Yukon | 1 |