e-818 (Tax system)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-1-16 Government Response to petitions concerning the tax system
- Dental insurance
- Employment benefits
- Private health insurance
- Taxation
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Minister of Finance
- The Federal Government is considering taxing employer sponsored Health and Dental benefits;
- 24 million Canadians (75%) currently have access to healthcare through private employer sponsored plans;
- The proposed tax on employer sponsored benefit plans will dramatically increase the tax burden on employees, and will be especially onerous for middle-class Canadians;
- The $2.9 billion that the government currently does not collect by not taxing employer-based health and dental plans, serves to incentivize more than $32.2 billion in health care services delivered to Canadians;
- The current tax exemption for employer-sponsored health and dental care plans encourages employers to offer benefit plans to employees for essential services that are excluded from Canada's public healthcare system;
- In 1993, Quebec reduced the tax benefits for employer-based benefit plans and almost 20% of all companies and 50% of all employers that provided plans, removed them, and many others reduced their benefit offerings to provide lower levels of benefit support for their employees; and
- On February 7, 2017, every Liberal MP present in the House of Commons voted against a motion calling on the government to abandon any plans to tax dental and health benefits.
- Open for signature
- February 16, 2017, at 4:07 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 16, 2017, at 4:07 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Tom Kmiec
(Calgary Shepard)
June 20, 2017 (Petition No. 421-01597) - Government response tabled
- July 19, 2017