Federal cost estimate of Bill C-399 : volunteer tax credit / [prepared by Stephen Tapp].: YN5-129/2012E-PDF
"This note responds to a request by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for the PBO to estimate the cost of Bill C-399, which proposes tax incentives for volunteers. PBO estimates that the federal cost of this Bill, in terms of foregone tax revenue, would average roughly $150 to $430 million annually over the first five years of implementation. The range provided is from ‘low-cost’ and ‘high-cost’ scenarios that alter key assumptions and is intended to convey the uncertain nature of these estimates. In the low-cost scenario an average of 1.7 million volunteers claim the tax credit each year, versus 2.9 million in the high-cost scenario. The analysis highlights that the most important issue impacting the potential cost of this Bill — and which has not yet been precisely defined — is the interpretation of which volunteer organizations would be eligible because they “primarily aid vulnerable populations”"--Summary, p. ii.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. |
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| Title | Federal cost estimate of Bill C-399 : volunteer tax credit / [prepared by Stephen Tapp]. |
| Variant title | Volunteer tax credit |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Estimation du coût fédéral du projet de loi C-399 : crédit d’impôt pour bénévoles. "September 24, 2012." Includes bibliographic references. |
| Publishing information | Ottawa : Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, 2012. |
| Author / Contributor | Tapp, Stephen. |
| Description | ii, 11 p. : charts. |
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| Subject terms | Volunteer work Tax credits Legislation |
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