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Finance committee Certainly we've had lots of questions on all kinds of issues. With respect to the policy and the treatment of seasonal businesses, I'd turn to the Department of Finance.
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Certainly, there is information that is being made available in a transparent way on a number of these programs in terms of the distribution by province, so we at the CRA would have information on the programs that we're administering. I can probably say the same for each of the
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Certainly we can provide you with the distribution with respect to the wage subsidy, which is a program we administer, and the same thing with the CERB. We're certainly aware of that issue and trying to work with indigenous businesses to ensure that if they are eligible they can
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Government Operations committee I'd be happy to speak to that.
May 11th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Government Operations committee I think we're doing a lot. We have a lot of systems in place to ensure that the right people are getting the money. We are the CRA. We have a lot of information that we collect regularly on people, such as the amount of money they have earned and the amount of money they're goi
May 11th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee I'd be happy to answer that. The CCB and GST see increases. In fact, they are based on the 2018 taxation year with respect to people's information. As long as we have that information on file, people are getting the CCB and GST based on that. That said, we encourage people to f
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee I'd be happy to respond to that. The Canada child benefit payment will be coming out on May 20. We try to orchestrate it so that everyone gets it at the same time. The cheques are sent a little bit earlier than the direct deposit so that they'll all arrive roughly on May 20, so
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Those are correct. Virtually everybody will receive $300, and on the income scale those amounts are gradually reduced only at the higher end. Certainly those at the low, middle and higher middle income class will all be getting the $300, and then, as you said, on average the paym
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee We do. So far we have around 78,000 businesses that applied in the first few days. I think we'll see that gradually accelerate as businesses look at their own situation, and they do the calculations. Certainly, they have many technical questions, so we think this is a really good
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Yes, we're definitely on target for that. It will be important for businesses to sign up for direct deposit in order to get that money as quickly as possible if they're in need of that. We're really pleased to say that we work with financial institutions, and a lot of the major b
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Thanks for that question. We're certainly monitoring very closely and have very good data on CERB applications and also those receiving the CERB. The same can be said for CEWS. As people are subsidized by CEWS, employers will be providing, of course, T4 information and everythin
April 30th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee I'm sorry. I didn't hear that question on tax returns. The volume wasn't working. Could you please repeat it?
April 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Yes, I did. Thank you for the question. Right now, we have delayed the filing deadline to June 1 and payment until August, so I think we've made a significant accommodation. The reason why we're reluctant to push the filing date past June 1 is that the information we receive fr
April 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee I'm happy to answer that question. I think you're right, in that there have been a number of programs, a number of reports, and they've been quite critical of our call centres. I think we've done a lot to try to respond to that. One of the challenges we had in the past was th
April 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee We definitely have been working very hard to stand up the portal. It is a significant undertaking. It's much more complex than the CERB, for example, but we are making excellent progress. Our plan is to open the portal on April 27, if everything goes according to plan, and so far
April 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten