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.
On June 13, 2012, TEI submitted comments to the British Columbia Expert Panel on Business Taxation in response to an invitation for submissions to assist with developing recommendations "for a…
On December 6-7, 2011,TEI President David Penney and David Daubaras, the Institute's Vice President for Canadian Affairs, led a delegation of members in the 2011 liaison meetings with the Canada…
On November 15, 2011, Tax Executives Institute submitted a letter to the British Columbia Ministry of Finance containing a number of improvements to make the Provincial Sales Tax ("PST") more…
On April 29, 2011, TEI submitted a letter opposing a referendum to rescind British Columbia's Harmonized Sales Tax and restore the Provincial Sales Tax. TEI's letter summarizes the Institute's…
On March 30, 2011, TEI sent a letter to the OECD affirming direction of OECD's VAT/GST neutrality guidelines. TEI's comments were prepared by the Institute's European Indirect Tax Committee…
On March 7, 2011, TEI submitted a letter to Finance Canada and Canada Revenue Agency recommending amendments to the Harmonized Value-added Tax System regulations to make restricted input tax credit (…
On December 7-8, 2010, TEI held its annual liaison meetings with Canadian Department of Finance and Canada Revenue Agency.
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On March 25, 2010, TEI filed a letter urging the Canada Department of Finance to permit sufficient time for companies to implement the new harmonized sales tax regime. TEI's letter follows amendments…
On December 8-9, 2009, TEI held its annual liaison meetings on income and excise tax issues with the Canadian Department of Finance and Canada Revenue Agency. Below are the agendas for the meetings…
On November 10, 2009, TEI filed comments in response to the Canada Department of Finance's release of draft legislation, explanatory notes, and a backgrounder concerning several measures aimed…
On September 16, 2009, TEI submitted a letter to members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario relating to the adoption of a harmonized sales tax in the Province of Ontario.
The comments were…
On September 8, 2009, TEI filed supplemental comments on issues relating to the implementation of a harmonized sales tax in the Province of Ontario. This letter supplements TEI's August 24, 2009…