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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, November 13, 2014 | 42 New tax proposals a cat-and-mouse game to win votes illy government decisions often make life more cumbersome for Canadians. Complicated tax incentives designed to win political votes are a misuse of time, energy and money. The most recent case is the federal government's proposal to give back some of the taxpayers' money in a complicated and expensive-to-manage way that many Canadians will not fully understand. The only winners are the accountants who will be paid professional fees to explain the next layer of rules in an already too complicated tax code. S Shame on our politicians. There are several new tax proposals that if passed, will be introduced for the 2014 tax year. The Family Tax Cut will allow families with children younger than age 18 to reduce income taxes up by to $2,000. The Child Care Expense Deduction is an increase to existing bene ts. 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The Universal Child Care Bene t is being expanded. It will provide those with children younger than age six a payment of up to $1,920 and a new bene t up to $720 per child aged six to 17. These enhancements replace the Child Tax Credit up to $335 for children younger than age 18. The Children's Fitness Tax Credits double to $1,000. It is also now refundable so those not required to pay income tax because of low or no income will bene t from this credit. These targeted groups are all meant to feel special, hoping they will vote for the Conservative party currently in power. We expect a federal election next year. The federal government is not alone when using complicated measures to get votes. Ontario does this as well. Our province introduced the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. We already have a federal Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security. We do not need another pension plan. If Ontario wants to give us more, it should work with the federal government to make this happen within an existing program. Dollars & Sense Peter Watson Guest Contributor The word of the day is `stop'. Stop trying to please every different group, retired persons or young families with inefcient complicated and expensive ad hoc solutions. We are strongly in favour of Canadians being well-served by their governments. They should not, however, tax us so they may turn around and give those dollars back to everyone through strategically allocated tax incentives. Buying our vote is a sham and hopefully Canadians will not be fooled by this tactic. Buying our vote with splintered inef cient separate programs for every one of us is just plain silly. 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