October 26^th, 2017

2017 Fall Economic Statement Delivering More Canada Child Benefit support, Small Business Tax Cut, and Other Measures

Markham-Thornhill – The 2017 Fall Economic Statement will deliver more Canada Child Benefit Support, cut the federal Small Business Tax Rate, enhance the Working Income Tax Benefit, and other measures to help the middle class and those working hard to join it. Mary Ng, Member of Parliament for Markham-Thornhill, attended the event in the House of Commons on October 24, 2017. The Fall Economic Statement also highlighted the Canadian economy`s stronger than anticipated performance this year, a result of the government`s plan they have been pursuing since 2015 to invest in the middle class and those working hard to join it.

Mary Ng noted that people and businesses in Markham-Thornhill will benefit from new measures announced in the Fall Economic Statement including:

• Strengthening the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) by making annual cost of living increases starting in July 2018—two years ahead of schedule. For a single parent of two children making $35,000, a strengthened CCB will contribute $560 more in the 2019–20 benefit year towards the cost of raising his or her children. That means more money, tax-free, for books, skating lessons or warm clothes for winter. The added confidence the CCB brings to families has been shown to have an immediate impact on economic growth.
• Enhancing the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB), which is a refundable tax credit that cuts taxes for eligible people already in the workforce and encourages others to get a job, by an additional $500 million per year starting in 2019. Our enhancement will allow-income workers—including families without children and the growing number of single Canadians—to keep more hard-earned money from every paycheque by further enhancing the Working Income Tax Benefit. This enhancement is in addition to the $250 million annual increase that will come into effect as part of the enhancement of the Canada Pension Plan. Taken together, these two enhancements will boost the total amount the Government spends on the WITB by about 65 per cent in 2019, increasing benefits and expanding the number of Canadians who qualify.
• Helping small businesses invest, grow and create jobs by lowering the small business tax rate to 10 per cent, effective January 1, 2018, and to 9 per cent, effective January 1, 2019. This will provide a small business with up to $7,500 in federal corporate tax savings per year to reinvest in and grow their business.
• Make important changes to the tax system that will ensure Canada's low corporate tax rates go towards supporting businesses, not to providing unfair tax advantages to the top 1 per cent wealthiest Canadians.

“The strengthened Canada Child Benefit is giving more money to Middle Class families; the Working Income Tax Benefit is keeping more money in the pockets of hard working Canadians; and the small business tax cut will ensure businesses have more money to save, invest and grow our economy. This is good news for Markham-Thornhill.“

Mary Ng

Member of Parliament for Markham-Thornhill 

Quick Facts:

• The economy has created over 450,000 jobs in the last two years, and the unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level since 2008.
• Canada now has the fastest growth in the G7, giving the Government more flexibility to re-invest the benefits of that growth in the middle class, and those working hard to join it.
• The Canadian economy is growing faster than it has in a decade, with average growth of over 3.7 per cent over the last four quarters. This makes Canada the fastest growing economy in the G7 – growing 40% faster than the United States or Germany, and more than twice as fast as France, Japan or the UK.
• Growth is forecast to be 3.1 per cent in 2017—significantly above expectations at the beginning of the year.
• 90% of families receive more through the CCB than they did under the previous government`s programs.
• There were over 3.3 million families receiving CCB payments in 2016-17, which provides $6,800 on average per family.
• Our new CCB measures will provide an additional $5.6 billion in support to Canadian families over the 2018-19 to 2022-23 period.
• 4 million Canadians benefitted from the Working Income Tax Benefit in 2015.
• The maximum amount of WITB for 2017 is $1,043 for a single person without children or $1,894 for a family

LINK: Fall Economic Statement 2017

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