Traduction de «Régime d'achat d'obligations d'épargne du Canada » (Français → Anglais) :

Question No. 413 Mr. Hoang Mai: With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) response to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): (a) according to the government’s analysis, do the FATCA provisions comply with the provisions of the Convention Between Canada and the United States of America With Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and its amending Protocol (2007); (b) how many citizens from the United States of America will be affected by FATCA, (ii) are there specific Canadian exemptions to FATCA; (c) has Canada negotiated with United States Treasury offici ...[+++]als or the IRS following the announcement of FATCA provisions, (i) at what time was the government made aware of these provisions, (ii) how long did it take Canada to respond to the initial creation of FATCA and its implementation, (iii) are there ongoing negotiations in this regard; (d) will Canada inform dual citizens about FATCA and, if so, (i) how, (ii) at what time, (iii) what department or agencies will be responsible; (e) has the government conducted any studies or mandated a task force to look into how much FATCA will cost Canadians and, if so, what are the cost implications resulting from the additional regulations and demands, (i) for the government, (ii) for the CRA, (iii) for Canadian banks, (iv) who will absorb these costs, (v) are there other types of non-financial costs such as efficiency or fairness reductions; (f) which Canadian civil liberties associations or other types of association has the government met with to discuss the privacy implications of FATCA and what actions will the government undertake to protect the fundamental civil liberties of all Canadians in this regard; (g) according to the government’s analysis, do the FATCA provisions comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act or the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and if so, which department undertook this assesment; ...

The act includes measures to help Canadian families get ahead: by indexing the working income tax benefit, or WITB; by allowing RRSP proceeds to be transferred to an RDSP, a registered disability savings plan, on a tax-deferred basis; by allowing a 10-year carry-forward for RDSP grants and bonds; by further strengthening federally regulated pension plans; by measures to cut red tape, helping registered charities with disbursement quota reform, allowing taxpayers to request online notices from the Canada Revenue Agency, reducing the paperwork burden for taxpayers; by measures to close down tax loopholes, such as better targeting of t ...[+++]ax incentives for employee stock options and addressing aggressive tax planning relating to TFSAs or tax-free savings accounts; by measures to protect consumers, such as improving the complaint process for consumers when dealing with the financial services industry; and finally, measures to promote clean energy, such as expanding access to accelerated capital cost allowance for clean energy generation.

One of the world's leading democracies and our largest trading partner, the United States, has guaranteed its people the right to this knowledge, thus permitting them to make well-informed purchasing decisions, since 1930 for all products entering its territory, and the same principle applies in other major democracies such as Canada, Japan and India, and also in countries whose concept of democracy is not the same as ours: Saudi Arabia protects its consumers by requiring all goods entering its territory to bear an indication of origin.

2. Believes that the international financial crisis, which has its epicentre in the US financial system and was triggered off by property speculation, is an expression of the growing crisis of a financial speculation that has little to with the real economy, as well as of the devaluation of workers' wages and the purchasing power of the poorest, together with forced recourse to bank loans both for buying property and for consumption; finds it unacceptable that the workers and the least-favoured strata should have to pay the costs of the present financial crisis, once again letting off the hook those who are in reality responsible for, a ...[+++]nd benefit from, speculative policies and the financing of the economy, in other words big business and finance;

The proposal concerns interest deriving from savings of all kinds, including securities (although existing securities are covered by a transitional regime).

That the Senate urges the Government, in the February 1998 Budget, to propose an amendment to the Income Tax Act that would increase to 30 %, by increments of 2 % per year over a five-year period, the foreign property component of deferred income plans (pension plans, registered retirement savings plans and registered pension plans), as was done in the period between 1990 to 1995 when the foreign property limit of deferred income plans was increased from 10 % to 20 %, because: (a) Canadians should be permitted to take advantage of potentially better investment returns in othe ...[+++]r markets, thereby increasing the value of their financial assets held for retirement, reducing the amount of income supplement that Canadians may need from government sources, and increasing government tax revenues from retirement income; (b) Canadians should have more flexibility when investing their retirement savings, while reducing the risk of those investments through diversification; (c) greater access to the world equity market would allow Canadians to participate in both higher growth economies and industry sectors; (d) the current 20% limit has become artificial since both individuals with significant resources and pension plans with significant resources can by-pass the current limit through the use of, for example, strategic investment decisions and derivative products; and (e) problems of liquidity for pension fund managers, who now find they must take substantial positions in a single company to meet the 80 % Canadian holdings requirement, would be reduced.