Bill 61 explained in plain English
Making Psychotherapy Services Tax-Free Act, 2023
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Making Psychotherapy Services Tax-Free Act, 2023, directs the Minister of Health to ensure psychotherapy services receive the same tax treatment as other medical services.
This bill, called the Making Psychotherapy Services Tax-Free Act, 2023, requires the Ontario Minister of Health to take steps to ensure that psychotherapy services provided by registered psychotherapists and similar practitioners in Ontario are treated the same for tax purposes as other services provided by other practitioners. This may involve introducing new legislation. The bill states that it comes into force the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Requires the Minister of Health to take necessary steps to align the tax treatment of psychotherapy services with that of other practitioners.
- Specifies that these steps may include introducing new legislation if required.
- States that the Act comes into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister of Health
- Psychotherapists
- Registered psychotherapists
- Registered mental health therapists (as defined under the Psychotherapy Act, 2007)
- Ontarians receiving psychotherapy services
- Other practitioners whose services are currently treated differently for tax purposes.
- The Minister of Health has an obligation to take all necessary steps to ensure the tax treatment of psychotherapy services is the same as for other practitioners.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill aims to make psychotherapy services treated the same for tax purposes as other services provided by other practitioners.
- The bill does not specify what the current tax treatment of psychotherapy services is or what the tax treatment of 'other practitioners' is.
- The bill does not detail the specific steps the Minister of Health must take, only that they must be 'necessary steps'.
- The bill does not define 'other practitioners'.
The bill aims to change how psychotherapy services, as defined under this Act, are treated for tax purposes by aligning them with other practitioners.
Source: Section 1
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