{"id":15285,"date":"2023-04-11T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:27:38","slug":"ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Canadian District calls on governments to take action on industry tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>April 11, 2023, Winnipeg \u2013 The Canadian District of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters is calling on governments to take steps to tackle construction industry tax fraud and labour trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>This call for legislative support is part of Tax Fraud Days of Action, a United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) campaign focused on raising awareness of and taking action to address illegal business practices in the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Fraud Days of Action runs from April 12\u201418, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The UBC Canadian District\u2019s call for partnership to address construction industry tax fraud extends to governments and other skilled trades across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Statistics Canada, the underground economy accounts for <span class=\"xn-money\">$65.8 billion<\/span> in economic activity annually. The largest slice of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada\u2019s<\/span> underground economy activity comes from the residential construction sector at 35.0 per cent or <span class=\"xn-money\">$23.9 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UBC Canadian District Office is seeking to partner with the federal government to take steps toward eliminating construction industry tax fraud.<\/p>\n<p>These steps include; enacting general contractor liability legislation to deter tax fraud committed by subcontractors; representation on the Canada Revenue Agency\u2019s (CRA) Underground Economy Advisory Committee, and; the assignment of auditors to work with the UBC to help identify contractor tax fraud via reported leads on suspected tax or benefit cheating\u00a0submitted to the CRA.<\/p>\n<p><em>SOURCE: United Brotherhood of Carpenters<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud\/1003292353\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 2023, Winnipeg \u2013 The Canadian District of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters is calling on governments to take &#8230; <a title=\"UBC Canadian District calls on governments to take action on industry tax fraud\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ubc-canadian-district-calls-on-governments-to-take-action-on-industry-tax-fraud\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UBC Canadian District calls on governments to take action on industry tax fraud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-15285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}