Tories' Low Tax Claims Contradicted By $3.4B In New Revenue: Liberals
OTTAWA - As Canadians begin to look forward to a series of new federal tax measures kicking in soon, newly-released figures show changes to taxes and tariffs are also helping bolster the government's bottom line.
Data tabled in the House of Commons this week shows a variety of tax changes and the elimination of old tax credits will rake in $3.4 billion more for the federal government in 2015-2016.
And those numbers don't include what the government is making on user fees for services like passports and citizenship or recent new tariffs on imports.
The $3.4 billion figure comes from data in an answer to a question on the order paper by deputy Liberal leader Ralph Goodale.
It's a telling answer, albeit an incomplete one, he said in an interview.
"It says that this government has been contrary to what they constantly assert — that they only reduce taxes, they never increase taxes," he said.
"The evidence is that they have over the last number of years generated billions of dollars in increased taxes and they can deny all they like, but the evidence is clearly there in the answer to this question. So the government's position is entirely hypocritical."
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