APCC Survey on Changes to Small Business Taxation

Thank you for participating in the survey.

Your responses will help us better understand the position of our membership on these issues.The survey consist of 6 questions (or less) and should take no more than 2-3 minutes to complete.

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* 1. Do you believe you will be personally affected by the Federal Government's proposed changes to small business taxation?

Yes.

No.

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* 2. What policy stance do you believe the APCC should pursue on the Federal Governments proposed changes to small business taxation?

Strongly opposed.

Selectively opposed to specific elements.

Neutral / No active advocacy.

Positive advocacy in support of the changes.

Not Applicable - I have no opinion on this topic.

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* 3. If you indicated selectively opposed in Question 2, please indicate which specific elements of the proposal should be opposed?

Sprinkling income using private corporations.

Holding a passive investment portfolio inside a private corporation.

Converting a private corporation's regular income in to capital gains.

Not Applicable

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* 4. Do you believe you will be personally affected by the new Independent Contractor restrictions featured in Ontario's Bill-148 legislation.

Yes.

No (Skip questions 5 & 6).

Not Applicable (Skip questions 5 & 6).

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* 5. What changes to your independent contracting work are you considering, should the legislation be passed as currently drafted?

Close my business and pursue independent consulting engagements a temporary employee.

Close my business and seek employment with a larger consulting organization.

Pool business interests with other independent consultants to form a larger consulting practice.

Explore relocation of my practice to another province in Canada, to the United States, or elsewhere in the world.

Update operations to be ‘Audit Ready’ under the new Ontario labour standards framework, including shorter engagements, simultaneous engagements with multiple customers and only accepting fixed price projects.

Other (please specify).

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* 6. What policy stance do you believe the APCC should pursue on Ontario’s Bill 148 issue?

Strongly opposed to Bill 148 as a whole.

Selectively opposed to the Independent contractor provisions only.

Neutral / No active advocacy.

Positive advocacy in support of the Bill 148 Changes.

Not Applicable - I have no opinion on this topic.

Thank you for participating in the survey. Your responses will help us better understand the position of our membership on these issues.The survey consist of 6 questions (or less) and should take no more than 2-3 minutes to complete.

Question Title

* 1. Do you believe you will be personally affected by the Federal Government's proposed changes to small business taxation?

Question Title

* 2. What policy stance do you believe the APCC should pursue on the Federal Governments proposed changes to small business taxation?

Question Title

* 3. If you indicated selectively opposed in Question 2, please indicate which specific elements of the proposal should be opposed?

Question Title

* 4. Do you believe you will be personally affected by the new Independent Contractor restrictions featured in Ontario's Bill-148 legislation.

Question Title

* 5. What changes to your independent contracting work are you considering, should the legislation be passed as currently drafted?

Question Title

* 6. What policy stance do you believe the APCC should pursue on Ontario’s Bill 148 issue?

Thank you for participating in the survey.

Your responses will help us better understand the position of our membership on these issues.The survey consist of 6 questions (or less) and should take no more than 2-3 minutes to complete.