2013 Ontario provincial budget

Canadian provincial budget, 2013 Budget of the Government of Ontario 2013 Canada 2012 Ontario provincial budget 2012 2014 Ontario provincial budget 2014 2 May 2013 13 June 2013 40th Liberal Charles Sousa $116.8 billion $127.6 billion $11.7 billion $117.0 billion $272.8 billion http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2013/ The 2013 Ontario budget, known as the Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act, is the budget for the province of Ontario for fiscal year 2013. It was presented to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for its first reading on 2 May 2013 by Charles Sousa, the Minister of Finance of the Government of Ontario, and received Royal Assent on 13 June 2013. Presentation The first reading of the budget bill was presented to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by Ontario Liberal Party representative Charles Sousa on 2 May 2013.Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Status The 127 CAD billion budget was designed to sufficiently appeal to Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), whose support the Liberal minority government needed in order for the bill to pass.CBC News 2013 Nearly $1 billion of budgetary expenditures were made "to meet NDP demands".Janus 2013 The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario had already stated it would oppose the budget.CBC News 2013 Debate in legislature and Royal Assent thumb|left|David Onley, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, granted Royal Assent to the budget bill on 13 June 2013. After six debate sessions in the legislature from 7 May to 16 May, on 5 June a motion to arrange proceedings was taken, and the final second reading of the bill carried on division.Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Status It was referred to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs by Order of the House on 5 June 2013, which considered the bill until 11 June, when it returned an amended bill which was ordered for third reading and carried on division.Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Status The bill was granted Royal Assent by David Onley, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, who signed it into law on 13 June 2013.Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Status As a result of the passage of the Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act, numerous other Acts were amended or repealed.Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Acts affected Revenues Revenues for fiscal year 2013 were expected to be $116.8 billion, a 2.3 percent increase compared to the 2012 provincial budget.Hogue Cooper 2013 2 This included a reduction in corporate income tax revenues of 5.8 percent, an increase of 5.7 percent in personal income tax revenues, and an increase of 3.8 percent in sales tax revenues. Hogue Cooper 2013 2 The government also borrowed $33.4 billion, of which 70 percent was from domestic sources.Hogue Cooper 2013 4 Taxation and investment The provincial government will collaborate with the federal government to mitigate "aggressive tax avoidance" transactions used to attempt to avoid Ontario taxes, and to minimize tax losses as a result of corporations transferring profits to other jurisdictions.Desjardins Group 2013 3 It proposed amendments to the Securities Act and Commodity Futures Act, adding new classes of securities fraud for attempted market manipulation and attempted fraud, clarifying insider trading regulations, and allowing the Ontario Securities Commission to share information with regulatory and law enforcement agencies.KPMG LLP 2013 It also repealed the sunset provision to the Retail Sales Tax Act to enable the government to collect or secure tax debts.Deloitte LLP 2013 2 Specifically, the government would withhold clearance certificates until resolution of debts associated with the Alcohol and Gaming Regulation and Public Protection Act (1996), Fuel Tax Act, Gasoline Tax Act, Race Tracks Tax Act, and Tobacco Tax Act.KPMG LLP 2013 These are expected to generate about $300 million in additional tax revenues from 2013 to 2016.Hogue Cooper 2013 2 The budget also ensures automatic adoption of measures in the 2013 federal budget regarding capital cost allowance, lifetime capital gains exemptions, dividend tax credit on ineligible dividends, corporate and trust loss trading, leveraged life insurance arrangements, character conversion transactions, and other federal legislative tax changes.PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013 The high income threshold for the top personal marginal tax rate increased from $500,000 to $509,000 as a result of indexing.KPMG LLP 2013 Statutes amended by the budget include the Corporation Tax Act, Employer Health Tax Act, Fuel Tax Act, Gasoline tax Act, Income Tax Act, Land Transfer Tax Act, Mining Tax Act, Provincial Land Tax Act (2006), Retail Sales Tax Act, the Taxation Act (2007), and the Tobacco Tax Act.Deloitte LLP 2013 2 The budget eliminated specific information technology apprenticeship programs from the Apprenticeship Training Tax Credit, a tax credit program which was established in 2004.Deloitte LLP 2013 1 Expenditures thumb|right|Exchange rate of the Canadian and US dollars from 1990 to 2014. The 2013 Ontario provincial budget assumed an exchange rate of 1 CAD equivalent to 0.98 USD. Assumptions for the budget include economic growth in real gross domestic product for the province of 1.5 percent in 2013, 2.3 percent in 2014, and 2.4 percent in 2015 and 2016,Janus 2013 as well as the Canadian dollar exchange rate with respect to the United States dollar to be 98.0.Desjardins Group 2013 6 Compared to the 2012 provincial budget, program spending was forecast to grow by 3 percent to $117 billion.Desjardins Group 2013 4 Expenditures were increased by $3 billion for healthcare and $2.4 billion for education, and were decreased by $2.2 billion for all other programs.Boesveld 2013 The budget proposal included $1 billion allocated to the reserve fund.Desjardins Group 2013 6 The budget included $1 billion of expenditures in order to draw support from the NDP, the most significant of which were $404 million for welfare payments and credits, $260 million for improving access to home care, and $295 million for a youth employment program,Janus 2013 the latter of which is the "only new program that will receive any significant new money" in the budget.Desjardins Group 2013 5 Business and economy The Employer Health Tax exemption was increased from $450,000 to $500,000 for small businesses, and was eliminated for companies other than registered charities with at least $5 million in payroll in Ontario.Janus 2013PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013 The change was made effective 1 January 2014, and will subsequently be indexed to the Ontario Consumer Price Index every five years.PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013Desjardins Group 2013 2 About 12,000 businesses had their Employer Health Tax liability eliminated as a result.McMillan LLP 2013 thumb|left|A sample of biodiesel fuel, for which the budget repealed the tax exemption effective 1 April 2014 The government announced the pending implementation of pooled registered pension plans per legislative changes by the federal government,Desjardins Group 2013 3 and reform of the pension system.PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013 It also planned a 15 percent reduction in auto insurance premiums in 2014, after fraudulent claim issues were addressed.Boesveld 2013 A "Commercialization and Innovation Voucher" pilot program was proposed, enabling entrepreneurs and small businesses to access services from Ontario research institutions.Deloitte LLP 2013 2 The capital cost allowance was extended, representing about $265 million over three years.Janus 2013 Effective 1 April 2014, the biodiesel tax exemption was repealed.PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013 The government established a panel to review the provincial minimum wage legislation, which was required to report to the government within six months.Boesveld 2013 Infrastructure thumb|right|Construction of the York University TTC station, part of the extension of the TTC Yonge–University line to Vaughan A $100 million fund was established for use by small and rural municipalities for infrastructure repair, part of the government's three year $35 billion infrastructure program.680 News 2013 The government announced the construction of additional high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV) over ten years for highways 401, 404, 410, and 427, and that a toll on existing HOV lanes could be applied for single-occupancy vehicles, which would raise about $250 million annually.Janus 2013 The budget also contained a recommendation to extend Highway 427 north to Major Mackenzie Drive.Mahoney 2013 2 Of the $13 billion allocated for infrastructure spending in the 2013 fiscal year, $6.3 billion was for transportation, including funding for the construction of the expansion of the Yonge–University line to Vaughan, and construction of the Confederation Line in Ottawa and the Ion rapid transit system in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.Hogue Cooper 2013 3 Healthcare and social assistance The budget specified that 149 hospitals in the province would receive $17 billion in funding, the same as the previous year, and that community and home care expenditures would rise by 6 percent to $4.56 billion, approximately 10 percent of all healthcare expenditures in the budget.Mahoney 2013 3 Overall healthcare expenditures were expected to increase by $3 billion.Boesveld 2013 Recipients of the Ontario Works and Disability benefit will retain $200 of employment earnings before the benefit is reduced.Boesveld 2013 A legal aid fund was established to improve legal representation to individuals unable to afford it, providing $10 million annually from 2013 to 2015.Boesveld 2013 The budget introduced an income testing program for high-income seniors using the Ontario Drug Benefit program.Hogue Cooper 2013 3 Education Education spending increased by $2.4 billion compared to the 2012 budget in order to fund the all-day junior kindergarten program announced in the 2010 provincial budget.Boesveld 2013 See also Ontario government debt Notes 30em References 30em https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ontario-budget-2013 Ontario Budget packed with proposals to woo NDP, but Horwath will 'talk to Ontarians' before deciding on support Boesveld Sarah National Post 23 January 2015 Boesveld 2013 http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/canadian-fiscal/ontbud2013.pdf Ontario budget 2013 Hogue Robert Cooper Laura RBC Economics 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontario-budget-2013-liberals-spend-nearly-1b-to-satisfy-ndp-stay-alive/ Ontario budget 2013: Liberals spend nearly $1B to satisfy NDP, stay alive Janus Andrea CTV News 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 https://www.national.ca/download.ashx?ID=bdd47cd3-cf12-4dc9-a391-cab7e1f38dea The Ontario Budget Brief Mahoney Richard National Public Relations 6 May 2013 23 January 2015 https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/05/02/highlights-of-the-2013-2014-ontario-budget/ Highlights of the 2013-2014 Ontario budget The Canadian Press 680 News 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 680 News 2013 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-liberals-fate-over-budget-hangs-on-ndp-1.1308327 Ontario Liberals' fate over budget hangs on NDP CBC News 2 May 2013 8 January 2015 CBC News 2013 http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ca/Documents/tax/ca-en-tax-2013-2014-ontario-budget-highlights.pdf Canadian tax alert: 2013 Ontario budget highlights Deloitte LLP 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 Deloitte LLP 2013 http://www.desjardins.com/ressources/pdf/eebo1305-e.pdf Ontario Budget Speech Taxation Administrative Department, Desjardins Group 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 Desjardins Group 2013 http://www.kpmg.com/ca/en/issuesandinsights/articlespublications/tnf/pages/highlights%20of%20the%202013%20ontario%20budget.aspx Highlights of the 2013 Ontario Budget KPMG LLP 2 May 2013 23 January 2015 KPMG LLP 2013 http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2787&detailPage=bills_detail_status Acts affected Bill 65, Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2013 Legislative Assembly of Ontario 13 June 2013 8 January 2015 Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Acts affected http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2787&detailPage=bills_detail_status Status Bill 65, Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2013 Legislative Assembly of Ontario 13 June 2013 8 January 2015 Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Status http://www.mcmillan.ca/Ontario-budget-2013-employer-health-tax-changes Ontario budget 2013: employer health tax changes McMillan LLP May 2013 23 January 2015 McMillan LLP 2013 http://www.pwc.com/ca/en/tax/budgets/2013/ontario.jhtml 2013 Ontario Budget: Tax Highlights PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 22 April 2013 23 January 2015 PricewaterhouseCoopers 2013 External links 2013 Ontario Budget at the Ontario Ministry of Finance 2013 Category:2013 government budgets Budget Category:2013 in Canadian politics Category:Premiership of Kathleen Wynne Category:May 2013 in Canada Category:June 2013 in Canada