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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... Operating Characteristics The operating characteristics supported by the 1984 SPSD/M include the following: unemployment insurance, family allowance, old age security, guaranteed income supplement, provincial elderly supplementation programs, federal sales tax credit, federal child tax credit, personal federal taxes, personal provincial taxes and credits, and household commodity taxes. Many of these programs have undergone extensive changes in the past several years as the Canadian government has implemented and/or proposed elimination of most personal tax deductions and conversion of the same into nonrefundable tax credits, introduction of the federal sales tax credit and child tax credit programs, taxation of benefits from the universal old age security and family allowance programs, and introduction of a new goods and services sales tax at the federal level in 1991 to replace a previously hidden tax applied to manufactured items.
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