23 February 2017

Nunavut budget 2017-2018 discussed

Nunavut Finance Minister Keith Peterson tabled the territory's fiscal 2017-18 budget on February 22. The budget contains no new taxes and no tax increases. The minister proposes operating expenditures of $1.92 billion and forecasts revenues of $1.98 billion. After supplementary reserve requirements, the budget projects an operating surplus of $22.7 million for 2017-18, and a core planning surplus of $2.1 million for 2017-18.

A Tax Alert prepared by Ernst & Young Canada, and attached below, provides additional details.

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Full text of Tax Alert 2017-0364

Document ID: 2017-0364