A Taxpayers Bill of Rights ?

A TAXPAYERS BILL OF RIGHTS
By Victor Drummond ©

It will no doubt come as a welcome bit of news that the current Government has announced the creation of a Canadian Taxpayers “Bill of Rights” and the creation of a Federal Ombudsman to keep the Canadian Revenue Agency Polite and civil in it’s dealings with the Canadian Taxpayer.

Time will tell just how much of a benefit these two events will be to the victims of the legalized robbery tolerated for so many years under the former government in power.

The treatment of all those who were taxed on “Benefits” they never saw and denied the same tax relief given the JDS employee’s in British Columbia, in 2006, are a clear violation of the “Equality” rights already provided in article 15(1) of the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

If no authority in the current government is prepared to act spontaneously to rectify this violation what good is another “Bill of Rights” going to do? And what good is a Federal Ombudsman who has no authority to amend articles in the Canadian Income Tax Act, that allows taxpayers to be taxed on potential gains, going to do?

If you are as outraged as I am about this fiasco you can contact your Member of Parliament via the following URL and/or write to your member of Parliament postage free at the address accessible from this same URL :-

http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsAddressList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

To obtain your MP’s E-mail address click on his or her Name Link on the foregoing URL and let them know how you feel about this poor excuse of a fix of the “Taxable Benefits” problem.

Adding more ineffective players to the team is not the solution. Changing the Tax Laws to exclude articles of intangible value, (such as corporation shares), from the “Taxable Benefits” classification doesn’t require more team players – or anyone with more than a minimum sense of “Fair Taxation”.

Victims of the Taxable Benefits robbery have always had the option of taking their case
to the “Tax Court of Canada”.

This organization will allow individuals to present their arguments, with, or without, legal representation.

In both cases the person taking their case to this court is likely throwing good money after bad.

This is the same option provided by the new Taxpayers Bill of Rights and/or the New Ombudsman. Great News?

Victor