{"id":337,"date":"2025-03-11T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:58:11","slug":"taxpayers-launching-court-fight-against-undemocratic-capital-gains-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers launching court fight against undemocratic capital gains tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Author: Devin Drover<\/a> 2025\/01\/24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal <\/a>News Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTTAWA, ON:<\/strong>\u00a0Taxpayers launching court fight against undemocratic capital gains tax hike<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is filing a legal challenge today to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from enforcing a capital gains tax increase that has not been approved by Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government has no legal right to enforce this tax hike because it has not received legislative approval by Parliament,\u201d said Devin Drover, CTF General Counsel. \u201cThis tax grab violates the fundamental principle of no taxation without representation. That\u2019s why we are asking the courts to put an immediate stop to this bureaucratic overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CTF is representing Debbie Vorsteveld, a resident of Mapleton, Ontario. Last year, she and her husband, Willem, sold a property that included a secondary home. They had rented the secondary home to their adult children, but had to sell it when their kids were ready to move on. The CRA says the Vorstevelds must pay higher capital gains taxes under the proposed capital gains increase or face financial penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CTF is seeking urgent relief from the Federal Court to block the CRA\u2019s enforcement of the proposed tax increase. In its application, the CTF argues the tax increase violates the rule of law and is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government passed a ways and means motion<\/a> for the tax increase last year but failed to introduce, debate, pass, or proclaim the necessary legislation into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parliament is now prorogued until March 24, 2025, and opposition parties have all pledged to bring down the Liberal government. As a result, there is no realistic chance the legislation will pass before the next election. Despite this, the CRA is pushing ahead with enforcement of the tax as if it is already law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new report<\/a> from the C.D. Howe Institute shows the capital gains tax increase will result in 414,000 fewer jobs and shrink Canada\u2019s GDP by nearly $90 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe undemocratic capital gains tax hike will blow a huge hole in Canada\u2019s economy and punishes people saving for their retirement, entrepreneurs, doctors and Canadian workers,\u201d said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. \u201cIt\u2019s Parliament\u2019s responsibility to approve tax increases before they\u2019re imposed, not unelected government bureaucrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe CRA must immediately halt its plans to enforce this unapproved tax hike, which threatens to undemocratically take billions from Canadians and cripple our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference https:\/\/www.taxpayer.com\/newsroom\/taxpayers-launching-court-fight-against-undemocratic-capital-gains-tax-hike<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Devin Drover 2025\/01\/24 Federal News Release OTTAWA, ON:\u00a0Taxpayers launching court fight against undemocratic capital gains tax hike The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is filing a legal challenge today to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from enforcing a capital gains tax increase that has not been approved by Parliament. \u201cThe government has no legal right to enforce this tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toensurecompliance.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}