Bill C-549 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act (unlegislated tax measures)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

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 Nov. 6, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Financial Administration Act to provide that the Minister of Finance must table a list of every tax measure in respect of which the Government, three or more years before the end of the previous fiscal year, publicly announced its intention to legislate and which has not been legislated.

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-549s:

C-549 (2010) An Act to amend the National Housing Act (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's retained earnings)

C-549 (2008) National Marine Day Act

Financial Administration ActRoutine Proceedings

November 6th, 2013 / 3:35 p.m.

Conservative

Mike Allen Conservative Tobique—Mactaquac, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-549, An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act (unlegislated tax measures).

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to table my private member's bill today to amend the Financial Administration Act for unlegislated tax measures. The bill would amend the Financial Administration Act to provide that the Minister of finance table each year a list of tax measures that the government publicly announced its intention to legislate but that have not been legislated.

The objectives of the bill are to ensure our tax laws are clearer, improve the efficiency of implementing those tax laws, and assist the taxpayer in the understanding of those tax laws. In short, it would help to address the many problems created for individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, tax professionals, and the Canadian Revenue Agency that result from a huge backlog of unlegislated tax measures.

I want to thank the member for West Nova, a former provincial finance minister, very much for seconding the bill. I ask for the support of all members of the House to make sure this happens for tax fairness across Canada.

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