The Canadian Commodity Tax Committee is responsible for TEI’s advocacy and educational efforts in Canadian federal and provincial excise, sales, and use tax matters. The committee provides comments on legislative and administrative proposals and conducts annual liaison meetings with the Canada Revenue Agency and Canadian Department of Finance to discuss tax-enforcement and policy matters in the commodity tax field.
Members of TEI's Canadian Commodity Tax Committee met virtually with the British Columbia Ministry of Finance on June 24, 2024. In addition to requests for updates on questions from past liaison…
On May 29th, 2024, TEI filed comments with Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland regarding Budget 2024's proposed expanded Canada Revenue Agency audit powers. TEI's comments focused on the…
On March 15, 2024, TEI submitted comments on the new GST/HST joint venture ("JV") election rules to the Department of Finance in response to a request for comments in the November 21, 2023, Fall…
On March 29, 2024, TEI provided a submission to the British Columbia ("BC") Minister of Finance in response to the 2024 BC provincial budget and accompanying bill that introduce changes to the…
On December 23, 2023, TEI provided a submission to the British Columbia ("BC") Minister of Finance as part of the 2023 Consultation on the Provincial Sales Tax Application to Partnerships. TEI's…
On December 5-6, 2023, a delegation of the Canadian Commodity Tax Committee members participated in TEI's annual liaison meetings with representatives of the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) and…
In December of 2020, 2021, and 2022, a delegation of Canadian Commodity Tax Committee members met with representatives of the Canada Revenue Agency and Department of Finance. The Canada Revenue…
On September 8, 2023, TEI submitted comments on a revised draft of the Canadian Digital Services Tax (DST) to Canada's Department of Finance. The comments included requests that (1) Canada join with…
In preparation for a liaison meeting between members of the TEI Canadian Commodity Tax Committee and the British Columbia(“BC”) Ministry of Finance on June 27, 2023, TEI submitted comments on a…
On September 29th, TEI submitted comments to the Canadian Department of Finance regarding its proposed legislation to implement Pillar Two of the OECD's project on the taxation of the digitalization…
On December 7–8, 2021, delegations of Canadian Income Tax Committee and Canadian Commodity Tax Committee members virtually participated in TEI's annual liaison meetings with representatives of the…
On June 18, 2021, TEI filed comments with the Canadian Department of Finance regarding the Canadian Government’s proposed tax on digital services (the Proposed DST). TEI provided over a dozen…