{"id":10592,"date":"2023-04-11T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:37:21","slug":"update-phoenix-damages-taxability-and-deadline-to-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10592","title":{"rendered":"Update: Phoenix damages taxability and deadline to object"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/psac_screen_login-startup_03_3_2_6_16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/psac_screen_login-startup_03_3_2_6_16.png 960w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/psac_screen_login-startup_03_3_2_6_16-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/psac_screen_login-startup_03_3_2_6_16-768x320.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>April 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, PSAC negotiated&nbsp;Phoenix general damages&nbsp;for approximately 165,000 PSAC members to compensate for the stress, aggravation and pain and suffering they endured because of the broken pay system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treasury Board treated Phoenix general damages as taxable income \u2013 deducting tax from the payment PSAC members received \u2013&nbsp;<strong><u>but the Union&nbsp;maintains that these damages should be tax-free like just like other damages agreements.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, despite numerous appeals by PSAC, Treasury Board and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) refused to&nbsp;revisit the taxability of Phoenix general damages. That has changed, however, and the Minister of National Revenue has agreed to PSAC\u2019s request to put a test case before the Tax Court to determine this issue. The joint reference was filed last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the event that the damages payments are declared non-taxable, the CRA can re-assess the taxes of impacted individuals that make a claim at that time and reimburse them. However, we cannot guarantee at this time that they will do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to guarantee your right to the reassessment, as we recommended in our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/psac-members-urge-to-file-individual-tax-appeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previous updates<\/a><\/strong>, we urge all those who received general damages for Phoenix to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/psac-members-urge-to-file-individual-tax-appeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">file an objection<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>before the end of April 2023<\/strong>. If for whatever reason you cannot do so in time, we will send further updates in May on how you can request an extension to the time period to object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not possible to determine the length of time the Tax Court will take to render their decision, but PSAC will provide an update to all members as soon as possible.&nbsp;For future Phoenix updates make sure to subscribe to PSAC\u2019s e-newsletter and visit&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/phoenix\" target=\"_blank\">psacunion.ca\/phoenix<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/update-phoenix-damages-taxability-and-deadline\">https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/update-phoenix-damages-taxability-and-deadline<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 6, 2023 In 2020, PSAC negotiated&nbsp;Phoenix general damages&nbsp;for approximately 165,000 PSAC members to compensate for the stress, aggravation and pain and suffering they endured because of the broken pay system.&nbsp; Treasury Board treated Phoenix general damages as taxable income \u2013 deducting tax from the payment PSAC members received \u2013&nbsp;but the Union&nbsp;maintains that these damages &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10592\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update: Phoenix damages taxability and deadline to object&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10602,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions\/10602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}