Lebouthillier’s top political staff should have known about Revenue Canada’s now-nixed plans to tax employee discounts: former CRA ministers

National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier said earlier this month she had no involvement in new wording in an income tax folio released by the CRA that called on employers to keep track of discounts provided to employees for the purpose of calculating these savings as income

Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier said she had no involvement in new wording in an income tax folio released by the CRA that called on employers to keep track of employee discounts for the purpose of calculating these savings as income, or in the growing number of people with Type 1 diabetes being denied a disability tax credit. The Hill Times file photo

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BY JOLSON LIM, MARCO VIGLIOTTI

October 30, 2017

A former Jean Chrétien-era national revenue minister says Diane Lebouthillier's top political staff should have known and warned the minister about prospective plans for the Canadian Revenue Agency to begin taxing employee discounts, a controversial proposal which has since been kiboshed by the go...

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