Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I think these kinds of benefits, these tax benefits, are really effective mechanisms for the government to get money into the pockets of the people and to allow those people to spend back into the local economy. So we have several new forms of taxation that we know are going to come down; well, two, I should speak to directly, cannabis and carbon. Both of those have a stated public policy objective. The revenues we use from that in many jurisdictions, especially in the context of carbon, they've created new tax benefits to put some of those revenues back into the pockets of citizens to help deal with the cost of living increases caused by a tax, and also into other funding available to corporations and businesses; but if we are to create a tax for carbon that is a similar to the cost of living tax credit, are we going to be establishing a low carbon tax credit? Is that part of the game plan moving forward on carbon tax? Thank you.
Kieron Testart on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 2018. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 22nd, 2018
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