Bill S-258 (Historical)

Fairness for All Canadian Taxpayers Act (measuring the tax gap to fight international tax evasion)

An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (reporting on unpaid income tax)

This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.

Status

Second reading (House), as of June 19, 2024
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Revenue Agency Act to require the Canada Revenue Agency to list all convictions for tax evasion — including international tax evasion — in the annual report it submits to the Minister of National Revenue. It also requires the Agency, once every three years, to include statistics on the tax gap in the annual report. In addition, this enactment specifies that the Minister is to provide data on the tax gap to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

Similar bills

S-217 (current session) Fairness for All Canadian Taxpayers Act (measuring the tax gap to fight international tax evasion)

S-243 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) Fairness for All Canadian Taxpayers Act (measuring the tax gap to fight international tax evasion)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from 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 S-258s:

S-258 (2019) An Act to amend the Criminal Records Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Message from the SenateGovernment Orders

June 6th, 2024 / 7:20 p.m.

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The Deputy Speaker Chris d'Entremont

I have the honour to inform the House that a message has been received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed the following bill, to which the concurrence of the House is desired: Bill S-258, an act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act regarding reporting on unpaid income tax.