Public Accounts committee  I'm not aware that the OECD or the IMF or other international organizations would have ranked countries. As I mentioned earlier, countries make different choices in the information they provide. Certainly, some organizations have tried to develop guidelines and things like that,

Public Accounts committee  As far as I'm aware, many countries publish a similar report providing cost estimates of their tax expenditures on an annual basis, but I'm not completely sure about that question.

Public Accounts committee  Sure. Well, all these countries have very good tax expenditure publications and provide a lot of information. We all make different choices in terms of what we provide as information. Certainly in Canada we do have descriptions of the objectives of the tax measures. We provide si

Public Accounts committee  The Department of Finance has two publications. The one that we update annually is available on our website. Every year it provides six years of cost projections, and also typically provides two analytical papers on topics of interest. Accompanying that is another document that's

Public Accounts committee  As Mr. Marsland alluded to earlier, the OECD frequently notes that we're providing information on a very wide range of tax expenditures. It is seen as being very transparent that we list not only information on the types of tax expenditures that were part of this chapter, but inf

Public Accounts committee  Our report presents six years of data in total on tax expenditures every year. Four of those are historical estimates and two years are projections.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Most OECD countries have publications that are similar to ours.

Public Accounts committee  Our report has six years of data. That is four years of historical estimates and two years of projections.