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.
TEI Receives Responses to 2020, 2021, and 2022 Liaison Meeting Questions from the Canada Revenue Agency
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 Agency has issued their responses to TEI’s liaison meeting questions, which cover a range of important tax law, policy, and administration issues. TEI also provided questions to the Department of Finance, although Finance does not provide written responses.
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TEI Comments on Canadian Digital Services Tax
On September 8, 2023, TEI submitted comments on a revised draft of the Canadian Digital Services Tax (DST) to Canada's Department of Finance.
TEI Canadian Commodity Tax Comments and Liaison Meeting with British Columbia Ministry of Finance
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 number of issues relevant to that province.
Canadian Pillar Two Implementation - TEI Comments
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 of the economy. Canada's legislation, entitled the Global Minimum Tax Act, encompasses most, but not all, of the necessary Pillar Two rules for Canada to comply with the global minimum tax regime.