1976 Canadian federal budget

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1976 (1976) Budget of the Canadian Federal Government
Presented25 May 1976
Parliament 30th
Party Liberal
Finance minister Donald Stovel Macdonald
Total revenue35.283 billion [1]
Total expenditures42.180 billion [1]
Deficit $6.897 billion [1]
  1975
1977  

The Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 1976-1977 was presented by Minister of Finance Donald Stovel Macdonald in the House of Commons of Canada on 25 May 1976. [2]

Contents

Background

December 1975 Ministerial Statement

On 18 December 1975 Donald Macdonald announced a temporary 10% surtax on taxes above $8,000. The surtax only applied to the 1976 taxation year and was enacted on 24 February 1977. [3] [4]

Taxes

Personal income taxes

The budget announced that taxpayers will be able to transfer their RHOSP savings from one plan to another, for instance to select a plan with a better rate of return. [5]

The maximum deduction for RPPs is increased to $3,500. [6] For RRSPs the limit is increased to $5,500 per year. [7]

Maximum deduction for child care expenses is increased to $1,000 by child (from $500) and capped to $4,000 by family (increased from $2,000). [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Canada's deficits and surpluses, 1963-2014". CBC News. CBC/Radio-Canada. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. "The Leader-Post". news.google.com. 26 May 1976. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4, s 65.
  4. Pepin, Marcel (19 December 1975). "Ottawa : surtaxe temporaire de 10% sur les revenus imposables qui sont supérieurs à $30,000". La Presse (in French). p. A9. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  5. S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4, s 57.
  6. S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4, s 1(1).
  7. S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4, s 56(4).
  8. S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4, s 21(1).

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