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Environment committee Well, it could reduce the cost by up to 20%.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee We didn't find any particular measure for homeowners in the United States, although there were multiple state and municipal initiatives that could be either grants or tax credits. We didn't do a complete review of what was available in the United States because that was outside t
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee Perhaps I could add to your previous question also. The Americans might have limited it to income-producing properties possibly as a way of capping the costs, since there is a much higher stock of historic properties in the U.S. than in Canada. They have over a million recogniz
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee The only other federal initiative that I'm aware of is the cost-sharing program that's managed by Parks Canada, but this one is targeted for not-for-profit organizations. On the tax credit, obviously you need to have taxable income to claim it, which not-for-profit organization
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee As we mentioned earlier, we asked a similar question. Table 1 shows how we break down the cost of the credit between small and large projects. What would be similar to the American credit would be the large projects. Basically, we expect the large projects to be mostly income-pro
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee Yes, it would be.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee If I may, I'd like to give you an idea. Let's say the cost of the tax credit is $60 million. Since this amount represents 20% of eligible expenditures, we can assume that expenditures will be approximately $300 million. If we add a few ineligible expenses, the total amount is $3
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee We were talking about the revenue generated for owners or developers, not for the government.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee As a reference point, the take-up rate in the U.S. was close to 0.5% for income-producing properties. Depending on the years, 50% to 60% of these projects also received state credits, because multiple states also have their own credit. In that case, on top of the 20% they receive
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee It's hard to say, and there's not really enough data to come to an answer.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee Obviously using a tax credit rather than a grant doesn't give you any control over the cost, because you have no idea what the take-up of the credit will be. Since a credit is not capped, it could be higher than what we predicted, but it's very hard to predict the take-up. The
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee Obviously if the aim of the legislation is to provide the credit only for properties that are listed on the register, definitely the register has to be updated for everybody who owns property that's already designated as heritage, whether under provincial or municipal jurisdictio
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee Actually, we tried to add those to the total number of properties, because as we mentioned, as of April 2017, there were 13,000 unique listings on the register, out of which approximately 6,000 or 7,000 were privately owned. For our total number of eligible properties, if we incl
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee As Jean-Denis mentioned earlier, there's not much information on this type of expense, so the best we had was a study in 2002 carried out by the State of Michigan. The study concluded that on new construction projects, 50% of the cost was materials and 50% was labour, as opposed
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier
Environment committee We looked at everything on the register, but if you look at the summary table, you can see that we split the projects into two types, small scale and large scale. We assumed small-scale projects would be mostly for owner-occupied principal residences, while the large-scale projec
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Govindadeva Bernier