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Finance committee Hello.
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee My name is Mathieu Bourgeois. I'm a tax policy officer at Finance Canada, for the sales tax division. To respond to your question, basically it's all based on the fact that alcohol excise duty rates have not been adjusted to account for inflation in the last almost three decades
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee Without doing all the calculations off the top of my head, I think it would be about a 90% increase for the last 30 years. It would basically be the consumer price index at the rough average of 2% per year, so every year it would have meant a 2% increase for the last 30 years.
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee Correct, but in the last 10 years, the average was roughly 1.9%.
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee There's no excise duty on 100% Canadian wine.
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee I don't have the information on hand. However, I think I remember that the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1 contained a definition of “taxed cigarettes”, which included a date. Since we're changing the cigarette tax rate as of September 2017, we must slightly modify the defin
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois
Finance committee Trade challenges, in particular potential issues, aren't my area of expertise. Obviously, a team from the Department of Finance has looked into the matter. Remember that, when the special measure for Canadian wine was established, the Government of Canada at the time reduced or e
May 29th, 2017Committee meeting
Mathieu Bourgeois