‘Bureaucratic burden’: Liberal MPs Gould, Sidhu, and Sen. Loffreda back up Celiac Canada’s request for simpler medical tax credit process

Celiac disease patients are required to keep and submit hundreds of food receipts for their gluten-free items in order to receive financial relief from the federal medical expense tax credit, according to Celiac Canada’s Melissa Secord.
Liberal MP Karina Gould, left, Independent Senator Tony Loffreda, and Liberal MP Sonia Sidhu have been advocating in Parliament for the federal government to move to a flat-rate refundable tax credit for celiac disease patient trying to claim the medical expense tax credit.

With a process that involves scanning hundreds of receipts and calculating the price differences of a litany of food items, celiac disease patients and some parliamentarians are asking Finance Canada to revamp the time-consuming process for claiming the medical expense tax c...

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