Feds Considering Taxing Employer-paid Health & Dental Benefits

January 16, 2017

– The Canadian Chamber of Commerce helps shape public policy and decision-making to the benefit of businesses, communities and families across Canada with a network of over 450 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 200,000 businesses.

CANADA – The federal government is considering taxing employer-paid health and dental benefits. Along with adding hundreds or thousands of dollars to Canadians’ tax bills, this proposal could cause many employers to stop offering coverage to employees.

When Quebec introduced a similar tax, 20% of employers dropped health and dental benefits for employees. Studies suggest the removal of this tax benefit across the board could result in a decrease of 50% of small firms that will be able to offer health benefits.

Please tell your MP this move would harm the people the federal government promised to champion: the middle class.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has created a template email to send to the Minister of Finance and your local MP, whose name and email are available here by entering your postal code.

For more information, please contact Susanna Cluff-Clyburne, Director, Parliamentary Affairs.

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