Bill C-305 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (health club membership fees)

This bill is from the 37th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in May 2004.

Sponsor

Tom Wappel  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Feb. 2, 2004
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-305 (37th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (health club membership fees)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-305s:

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Income Tax ActRoutine Proceedings

November 18th, 2002 / 3:05 p.m.


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Liberal

Tom Wappel Liberal Scarborough Southwest, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-305, an act to amend the Income Tax Act (health club membership fees).

Mr. Speaker, this is a very simple bill with the intent to encourage people to become physically fit and thereby ensure that by being physically fit they will be less of a burden on the health care system as it becomes more and more expensive.

I am using the Income Tax Act to attempt to encourage behaviour that allows people to become physically fit by joining health clubs and making sure they look after themselves. This would permit a deduction of the health club membership prior to the calculation of taxable income.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)