Table of contents
- Implementing Budget 2023
- Implementing Budget 2024
- Improving life lease protection
- Increasing access to justice for Albertans
- Keeping Alberta families and communities safe
- Keeping Alberta’s tax laws up to date
- Modernizing compensation governance
- Protecting Albertans’ pensions
- Protecting Alberta’s tax advantage
- Providing clarity on public health order decisions
- Streamlining professional governance laws
- Modernizing Alberta’s electricity system
- Implementing red tape reduction
- Modernizing condominium laws
- Enabling energy rebates
- Providing Albertans extra job protection
- Diversifying Alberta’s insurance sector
- Reforming teacher profession discipline processes
- Enhancing sexual assault law education
- Innovating the finance sector
- Making trust laws more efficient
- Transforming continuing care
- Protecting the health of women and girls
- Strengthening public’s right to know
- Designating Alberta's official gemstone
- Protecting roadside workers
- Delivering certainty for public health rules
- Recognizing special days
- Implementing Budget 2022
- Recognizing the Platinum Jubilee
- Renaming Calgary constituency
- Putting students first
- Improving Alberta’s waste management
- Protecting and preserving Alberta’s outdoors
- Improving the affordable housing system
- Restoring tax accountability
- Upholding the value of artists to Alberta
- Strengthening infrastructure planning
- COVID-19 civil liability protection
- Modernizing post-secondary education
- Modernizing public health laws
- Empowering citizen initiatives
- Holding elected officials accountable
- Improving child care
- Establishing the Heroes' Fund
- Strengthening the financial sector
- Financing transportation projects
- Modernizing justice and policing
- Attracting job creating investment
- Improving public health care
- Restoring balance in Alberta’s workplaces
- Strengthening democracy in Alberta
- Making Alberta roads safer
- Strengthening mental health care
- Creating an Alberta Parole Board
- Supporting victims of crime and public safety
- Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act
- Strengthening Alberta’s justice system
- Introducing the Alberta Firearms Act
- Protecting property rights
- Protecting survivors of human trafficking
- Modernizing Alberta's Police Act
- Preserving Canada's economic prosperity
- Protecting critical infrastructure
- Carbon tax repeal
- Job Creation Tax Cut
- Public sector wage arbitration deferral
- Alberta Senate Election Act
Status: Received Royal Assent on June 4, 2019
Ministry responsible: Treasury Board and Finance
Overview
Bill 1: the Carbon Tax Repeal Act has eliminated Alberta's provincial carbon tax and repealed the Climate Leadership Act to help remove the financial burden on families and job creators.
Key changes
The Carbon Tax Repeal Act:
- repealed the Climate Leadership Act on May 30, 2019 and ended the Alberta Climate Leadership Adjustment Rebate
- gave gas stations and other fuel re-sellers that held fuel at the time of repeal 30 days to apply for a refund of the carbon tax paid when they purchased that fuel
- shortened the time period to apply for outstanding refunds or rebates from 4 years to 2 years
- fuel users had until the end of 2019 to apply for rebates in respect of fuel used for an exempt purpose in 2017
- re-sellers that sold tax-exempt fuel in 2019 have until the end of 2021 to apply for a refund on the tax they paid when they purchased the fuel
- removed the spending restrictions on existing carbon tax revenue and made sure the carbon tax was not charged on sales after it’s repealed
The Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) regulation applies to large industrial emitters as of January 1, 2020.
Next steps
In December 2019, Alberta issued a Court challenge against the federal carbon tax, which came into effect on January 1, 2020, arguing that each province has the right to set its own policies to fight climate change. An Alberta Court of Appeal decision is expected in the spring of 2020.
News
- Federal carbon tax: Minister Schweitzer statement (Dec. 16, 2019)
- Carbon tax repeal helps Albertans get back to work (May 22, 2019)