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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-396
An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing)

FIRST READING, June 12, 2024

Mr. Duncan

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Excise Tax Act to eliminate the goods and services tax (GST) in respect of carbon pollution pricing.

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1st Session, 44th Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-396

An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing)

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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1This Act may be cited as the Stopping the Tax on the Carbon Tax Act.

R.‍S.‍, c. E-15

Excise Tax Act

2Section 154 of the Excise Tax Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

Levies excluded from consideration

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154(2.‍1)Despite subsection (2), for the purposes of this Part, the consideration for a supply of property or a service does not include
  • (a)any tax, duty or fee imposed under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act; or

  • (b)any provincial levy imposed in respect of carbon.

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3Subsection 221(2.‍1) of the Act is repealed.

4The portion of subsection 228(4) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

Real property — self-assessment

(4)If tax under Division II is payable by a person in respect of a supply of property that is real property and the supplier is not required to collect the tax and is not deemed to have collected the tax,

5Subsection 261(2.‍1) of the Act is repealed.

6Paragraph 298(1)‍(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (b)in the case of an assessment of tax payable by the person under Division II in respect of a supply to which subsection 221(2) applies, more than four years after the later of the day on or before which the person was required to file the return in which that tax was required to be reported and the day the return was filed;

7Schedule VI to the Act is amended by adding the following after Part X:

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PART XI 
Carbon Pricing

1A supply of emission allowances.
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Coming into Force

45th day after royal assent

8This Act comes into force on the 45th day after the day on which it receives royal assent.

Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons

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