| 19(1) | File No. 90M03056 |
| Don Lanos | |
| 957-9231 |
March 9, 1990
I am writing further to representations made on your behalf by:
Your case has been thoroughly reviewed and compared with the guidelines for recommending remissions. After careful consideration of the matters raised,
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When the remission guidelines are not met, the remission process cannot provide relief from taxation beyond that already made available by parliament to all taxpayers under the Income Tax Act.
The range of medical expenses has been expanded for environmentally hypersensitive persons in Bill C-28, which is now before the Senate. When Bill C-28 becomes law, the new provisions affecting medical expenses will apply to 1988 and subsequent taxation years but will still not be broad enough to cover the majority of the expenditures that you have claimed as medical expenses.
I would like to thank you for writing and , while the remission that you requested cannot be generated, I trust that the foregoing comments explain the law in these circumstances.
Yours sincerely
R.J.L. Read Acting Assistant Deputy Minister Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Branch
DL/yp/min(letter)2-2.1-AYS: 9167018/9143945 (related 9209016)YS: 9209016 (related 9143045, 9167018)March 5, 1990Don Lanos - 957-9231