Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, last year in December, I asked the Minister of Finance some questions concerning the payroll tax. The payroll tax, as I understood it then, was to get money from fly-in and fly-out employees. It refunded any money that bona fide territorial residents of the territories put into the program. However, some categories of some employees were not taxed in the normal fashion that would allow the territorial government to access their money. As a consequence, they ended up getting back the refund without having put any money into that. I asked the Minister at the time if he would manage to plug some of those loopholes and the Minister replied that he didn't have the right size plugs to plug those loopholes. I wonder if, since December 6th of last year, the Minister has managed to plug some of these loopholes.
Tony Whitford on Question 276-12(6): Correcting Inadequacies In Payroll Tax System
In the Legislative Assembly on October 28th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Question 276-12(6): Correcting Inadequacies In Payroll Tax System
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 27th, 1994
Page 588
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