Last year, with our small team from the official opposition, and with the full support of my colleagues, who were good enough to make suggestion
s for the reform of corporate taxation, we tabled a substantial,
almost exhaustive analysis of all major tax expenditures that applied to Canadian businesses. For the benefit of taxpayers in Quebec and in Canada, tax expenditures are all the exemptions, everything in tax legislation that applies to corporations, as well as to individuals-in this case I am talking about corporations-everything th
at lowers the taxes ...[+++]paid by corporations.
Pour le bénéfice des contribuables québécois et canadiens, une dépense fiscale est l'ensemble des exemptions, les exonérations, tout ce qui, dans la loi fiscale, s'applique aux corporations, de même qu'aux particuliers-il s'agit ici des corporations-tout ce qui fait en sorte de réduire les impôts payés par les corporations.