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In 2014, the UN's Commission on the Status of Women agreed on a document that called for the acceleration of progress towards achieving the millennium development goals, and confirmed the need for a stand-alone goal on gender equality and women's empowerment in post-2015 goals, and for gender equality to underpin all of the post-2015 goals. [75]
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes , administers tax law and policy , and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [ 4 ]
The GST applies nationally. The HST includes the provincial portion of the sales tax but is administered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and is applied under the same legislation as the GST. The HST is in effect in Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
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The Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 2015–16 was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Joe Oliver on 21 April 2015. This was the last budget before the 2015 federal election . The budget was supposed to be presented in February or March before the fiscal year began on April 1, but was delayed because of the steep drop in oil ...
It was created from the merging of Revenue Canada with Canada Customs. [1] [2] The CCRA was subsequently split into the Canada Border Services Agency and Canada Revenue Agency. [1] [2] During the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, QC, the department was called the Department of National Revenue Customs and Excise.
On July 1, 2006, the Government of Canada reduced the tax by 1 percentage point (to 6%). [10] [11] They again lowered it to 5%, effective January 1, 2008. [12] This reduction was included in the Final 2007 Budget Implementation Bill (Bill C-28), [13] which received Royal Assent on December 14, 2007. This change has been estimated to have ...
Income taxes in Canada constitute the majority of the annual revenues of the Government of Canada, and of the governments of the Provinces of Canada. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, the federal government collected just over three times more revenue from personal income taxes than it did from corporate income taxes .