Finance committee The average additional benefit of the GST credit will be $396 for single individuals, $594 for couples and up to $300 per child for the child benefit.
April 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Yes, I am, Mr. Chair. I must admit that I don't have direct knowledge of the work, but I do know there's a lot of work going on to examine the issues and the potential responses to those issues faced by particular sectors. I'm not in a position to indicate at what point the gov
April 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Thank you for the question. Certainly, we did look and we continue to look at other countries' response to this crisis, both in terms of income support and wage subsidies. I think it's fair to say that countries have taken different approaches. Some, for example the U.K., have
April 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee With the main estimates.
February 19th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Thank you very much for the question. As the minister indicated, it's important to point out that these issues are best approached in a multilateral fashion, the base erosion and profit shifting approach being one aspect of that. It's also important to understand how profits are
February 19th, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Yes.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Yes. I believe it's 1.1 million.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee It's 1.1 million.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Somewhere in there.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee I can certainly look into that.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Yes.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee Well, you anticipated that I wouldn't have that, but I can see if we can find that.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee To give a bit of context, the design of this is that it essentially increases the tax threshold. Now the tax threshold is noted at $15,000. That is the basic personal amount. However, in reality, the non-tax threshold for many taxpayers—in fact I would say most taxpayers—is hig
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee I can see what we can do, yes.
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland
Finance committee I'm not sure I have a numerical answer. Clearly, as I mentioned earlier, we're working on the issues laid out in the minister's mandate letter and analyzing them. Whenever you change the tax parameters, you affect the marginal effective tax rates. Logic would tell you that if you
February 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Andrew Marsland