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e-1614 (Income tax system)

E-petition
Initiated by Sandra Hughes from Calgary, Alberta

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled

Whereas:
  • The purpose of the disability tax credit (DTC) is to provide for greater tax equity by allowing some relief for disability costs, since these are unavoidable additional expenses that other taxpayers don’t have to face;
  • Only 40 per cent of the more than 1.8 million people who live with severe disability in Canada use the federal DTC, meaning that most Canadians with qualifying disabilities are not accessing the credit;
  • In 2017, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) began restricting access to the DTC that affected hundreds of Canadians living with diabetes and other rare diseases by changing the interpretation of the rules around life-sustaining therapy and associated requirements for these diseases; and
  • In the case of life-sustaining therapy that requires a regular dosage, considerable time is spent on activities directly related to the determination of that dosage of medical food and medical formula.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to support Bill C-399, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (disability tax credit), to protect diabetics and patients with rare diseases from having their DTC rejected, and to ensure that they receive the benefits they deserve and are entitled to.
Open for signature
March 29, 2018, at 3:16 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
July 27, 2018, at 3:16 p.m. (EDT)
Photo - Tom Kmiec
Calgary Shepard
Conservative Caucus
Alberta