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Delay in Parliament opening isn't what you think
January 8, 2010
Good morning, yes, delaying the opening of Parliament is suspicious, but I believe there's something else going on that no one in the media seems to be picking up on.
Didn?t anyone in the press read the AG?s report from November? Read Chapter 3 about tax administration. I've been attending tax updates with Ed Kroft at McCarthy Tetrault for years, listening to the growing list of technical amendments that don?t seem to ever make it to parliament for review. There hasn?t been a technical amendment since 2001.
Yes, the Senate need more members to assist Harper with passage of bills, but everyone needs more time to get through the backlog.
There?s a management crisis. Not only are there Senate postings, but there?s an aging workforce supporting various Ministries including Finance and CRA and Parliament who are all taking their holidays before they retire, but there?s a backlog of work that isn?t getting done in the mean time.
Finance is probably scrambling to get everyone up to speed to review the backlog of technical amendments to the Income Tax Act that have been piling up since 2002. It seems to me Finance rulings staff has been spending an awful lot of time answering Home Reno Tax Credit questions instead. There are rulings on all kinds of expenditures. Of course you?d have to be subscribing to a tax information service to find out about all of them, but almost every week there?s at least one.
BTW, And did you know that iPhones qualify as a computer for the new Class 52, 100% computer deduction for January 27 2009 to Feb 1 2011, which still hasn?t made its way to the CRA website through some sort of oversight, but was passed last May?
Work backlog would be an incredibly good reason to suspend Parliament and you definitely wouldn?t want to tell anyone that?s why.
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_200911_03_e_33204.html
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