The Budget   grab called bracket creep, by the pernicious tax on inflation. If these people get a cost of living adjustment in their pension cheques or their minimum wage income from working in the labour force, if they get an automatic COLA, a cost of living adjustment, they end up paying

The Budget   is not the Reform Party's research but private sector research, indicates that by the year 2001 an average taxpayer will have paid $5,300 more than they do today in income taxes because of bracket creep, that they will pay $913 billion next year alone because of bracket creep. It is an enormous

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague from Medicine Hat was speaking moments ago about the bracket creep which is a serious systemic flaw in our tax system. I raised a question in this place on November 18 last year of the government about a revenue department report, which had been

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party would take every low income senior off the tax rolls who should not be paying taxes today but is because of bracket creep. We would take every low income Canadian off the tax rolls who should not be paying taxes but is because of bracket creep. How

Income Tax Amendments Act, 2000   by bracket creep. The government has benefited from this tax on inflation during the last eight years of its mandate. The government has put an additional 1.9 million low income people on to the tax rolls by way of bracket creep. The Canadian Alliance proposes to raise the basic personal

Taxation   Liberal math that 1.2 million taxpayers were added to the tax rolls since 1993 because of bracket creep and that another 300,000 will be added back on in the next two years as a result of bracket creep. How does he come up with this specious figure when in fact 900,000 people

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary keeps telling us the government has cut taxes. Has he heard anything about the CPP $10 billion tax increase he stood up and voted for? Does he know about the impact of bracket creep which every year takes a billion additional dollars out

Finance   system and putting into play the vicious logic of bracket creep. He criticized that same Conservative government for having introduced the goods and services tax and for having raised taxes on corporations, businesses and individuals through the various 3% and 5% so-called high income

Budget Implementation Act, 1998   expenditures. They are government cheques that are being cut. That is the Liberal accounting. If we account for the $10 billion annual increase in CPP premiums and the enormous effect of bracket creep which sucks up $2 billion to $3 billion a year out of the pockets of taxpayers just

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the finance minister says this budget is going to give tax relief to middle income Canadians, but private sector economists are saying that because of bracket creep, this insidious tax on inflation, that the middle class is going to end up paying a billion dollars

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the tax department released its 1994-95 report which confirmed that in that year alone income taxes paid by the average taxpayer went up by 10%. That is largely because the government has kept in place Brian Mulroney's hidden tax grab called bracket creep

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we are glad to finally hear that admission. The problem is that Canadians are suffering because of a tax burden which is getting higher every year. It is not a question of cutting taxes. It is a question of not raising taxes any more under bracket creep. When

Budget Implementation Act, 2004  Mr. Speaker, there is good reason for it. It is because there has been no real tax relief under the government. The increases in CPP premiums and the effect of bracket creep over the life of the government has effectively increased the overall tax burden. This member knows

Budget Implementation Act, 2001  Mr. Speaker, I am talking about truth in advertising and that is not offered in the budget. I said that bracket creep prior to the reindexation of the tax code constituted an annual tax increase, but I also said that stopping a tax increase was not a tax cut. People running

Taxation   is talking about a so-called reduction which has been overwhelmed by bracket creep and the Canada pension plan increase. Why do people like Adam Grabowski have to continue working harder and making sacrifices when the government refuses to provide real tax relief?