Jim Flaherty: Tax Changes

Flaherty Dept: It's true that Flaherty's media event on the day the bill was tabled did feature the extension of a small business-friendly hiring tax credit that was heavily marketed around last spring's budget. A dozen or more other tax changes are also featured in the first section of C-45, according to CBC. Nevertheless, there's a fair bit for MPs to review , including things they weren't expecting inside the Tories' second doorstopper and finance Minister Jim Flaherty told the House of Commons last Thursday MPs would know what was in the Harper government's second omnibus budget implementation bill if only they had read the budget last March . Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's second omnibus budget implementation bill was introduced last week. Debate on the bill at second reading is now underway, before it heads to ten different committees for review. Blair Gable/Reuters Although it has more pages than the first omnibus budget bill last spring, some of the changes this time are more technical and incremental. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.