Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says regulated healthcare professionals who aren’t doctors will be able to bill the government for medically necessary services that would otherwise be provided by a physician.
Since the higher capital gains inclusion rate has yet to pass into actual law, doctors can choose to file their taxes with the old rules—but there’s a catch.
In September, the college approved a motion to initiate an external third-party governance review over an increase in ‘behaviours indicative of board discord and a breakdown of trust.’
Now that prorogation has killed the tax measures that were stalled in Parliament, there is a possibility that these proposals could be dead for good if the government falls before reintroducing them.