TRUCK STOP QUEBEC

By: James Menzies
OTTAWA, Ont. -- Canadian truckers were big winners in today’s federal budget, which restores the meal tax deductibility for long-haul truck drivers to 80%.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance, Owner-Operators’ Business Association of Canada (OBAC) and Teamsters have been appealing to the feds to restore the limit from 50% to 80% through the Lunchbag Letdown Campaign. The campaign was well-publicized in the trade press, including Truck News and trucknews.com and last month’s issue of Truck News reported federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had received more than 4,000 postcards.

The Liberal government rolled back the deductibility limit to 50% in 1994 to curtail lavish spending by big business. A similar move was made in the US at the time, but the limit is being restored south of the border. In Canada, the 80% deduction limit will be restored in stages, according to Flaherty. It will increase to 60% as of March 19, 65% in 2008, 70% in 2009, 75% in 2010 and 80% thereafter.

Bonne nouvelle merci Ti-nez

Bonne nouvelle.

Mais quand ils ont droppé a 50% ca ne c`est pas fait en étape, mais on a gagné ca quand même.

effectivement,mes sé mieux que rien,reste a espérer que si le gouv fed change que l'autre parti va pas la rechanger

Hé oui! Le gouvernement a décidé de nous redonner une chance de sauver des sous mais je suis sûr que en bout de ligne, ont ne sera pas plus riches car ils vont venir en chercher plus sur un autre côté. Que ca soit en fuel-tax, sur nos permis de conduire, etc,etc.

Anyway, ca fait quand-même du bien de voir que on peut regagner un peu sur ce côté là.