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Red Tape Reduction achievements
13 January 2011
Toronto, Ontario
Over the last three years, the Harper Government has simplified regulatory and administrative requirements for Canadian businesses through the following steps:
- In March 2009, the Harper Government fulfilled its Budget 2007 commitment to reduce the paperwork burden by 20 per cent under the Paperwork Burden Reduction Initiative (www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/04513.html). The initiative eliminated almost 80,000 regulatory requirements and information obligations by streamlining regulations, eliminating duplicate requirements and overlapping obligations, and reducing information requirements.
- The Canada Border Services Agency is eliminating more than 1,600 obsolete, non-essential requirements for information and administrative demands that were imposed on business. This represents a 20-per cent reduction in red tape for that one organization alone. (www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/media/release-communique/2009/2009-04-17-eng.html)
- The Record of Employment on the Web service(http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/employers/roe_web.shtml) offers a variety of benefits to business. Some examples include:
- The ability to submit more than 1200 electronic Records of Employment (ROE) at once.
- The ability to import key ROE information back into a payroll system for easy reference and record keeping, eliminating the need to order and store paper ROE forms, or keep paper copies on file.
- Interactive functions and pre-filled information, online help and feedback to ensure forms are completed accurately, reducing the need for follow-up calls from the Government.
- The Canada Revenue Agency has reduced the frequency of required tax filings and remittances, benefiting small businesses.
- Services such as BizPaL (www.bizpal.ca) and the Canada Revenue Agency's My Business Account (www.cra-arc.gc.ca/esrvc-srvce/tx/bsnss/myccnt/menu-eng.html) streamlined the ways businesses interact with the Government.
