The proposed Conservative Budget, tabled March 22 in Ottawa, promised to introduce a $500 children’s artistic activity tax credit. (The pledge was originally made in the 2008 Conservative Platform). It parallels the children’s fitness tax credit, introduced in 2007.
The proposed new tax credit is welcomed by many in the cultural sector: It will demonstrate to Canadians that piano lessons are equally as legitimate a pursuit as soccer in the development of children.
What to make then of Sunday’s Conservative Party pledge to double the children’s fitness tax credit, with no mention of the artistic activity tax credit?
Both artistic and fitness activity are essential to a child’s development. Study after study finds positive correlation between arts education, academic success and all round health. The same is, of course, true of fitness activity.
So why promise to double the fitness tax credit, with no reference to the artistic activity tax credit?
One can’t help but ponder the question.
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Tax credits are only useful to those who take up the activity they relate to. Tax credits don't have nearly the trickle-down effect that a committed investment into the cultural sector would have. We know that the arts and culture sector contributed $85 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2007 (7.4% of Canada’s real GDP). We know that the cultural sector generated approximately $25 billion in taxes for all
ReplyDeletelevels of government in 2007. This is more than three times higher than the $7.9 billion that was spent on culture by all levels of government
in 2007. Investment in the cultural sector has the biggest impact for all Canadians, while tax credits only benefit those who have the money to fork out for these programs in the first place.
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