Comments submitted to British Columbia Expert Panel.

• Position: Recent Activities

In early 2012, the British Columbia Ministry of Finance appointed the Expert Panel on Business Taxation (Expert Panel) "to provide analysis and recommendations to the Province on business tax competitiveness and administrative improvements to streamline the Provincial Sales Tax." In response to an invitation for recommendations "for a business tax system for British Columbia that balances the principles of competitiveness, fairness and simplicity," TEI submitted comments on June 13, 2012, relating to the provincial corporate income tax, Carbon Tax and Motor Fuel Tax, and the provincial sales tax. (As a result of an August 2011 referendum, the Province is reverting from the Harmonized Sales Tax to the provincial sales tax, effective April 2013).

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