New tax credit reimburses northerners for high energy costs

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Aug 27, 2010- 1:43 PM

By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff

Low- to middle-income residents in northern Ontario are eligible to apply for the new, permanent Northern Ontario Energy Credit.

The new energy credit, which tries to make up for higher energy costs in the north, provides up to $130 for eligible single people and up to $200 for eligible families, including single parents.

Applications are available online by going to www.mndmf.gov.on.ca and following the links to the Northern Ontario Energy Credit page, at any ServiceOntario location in Northern Ontario or by phoning 1-866-305-1954.

The program is for residents who pay rent or property tax and meet income criteria.

Northerners only need to apply for the credit once. It will be automatically reimbursed each subsequent tax year. The final deadline to apply for the 2010 credit is June 30, 2011.

The 10 eligible northern Ontario districts are Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Rainy River, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Timiskaming.

“Along with a recent income tax cut and other new benefits that are part of the Open Ontario plan this tax credit will make a difference for many eligible residents in our community,” Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci said, in a press release.

“I encourage northerners to check their eligibility and apply for this credit – it could mean money back in your pocket.”
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12 Comments

  • Phillip Morris 8/31/2010 7:16:46 AM - Report Abuse

    Sure catmac.

    The higher tax bracket folks work hard. They pay more and get less and less back. They invest and pay plenty for basic needs. When you consider the percentage spent, and the burden a working family endures, they need the break.
    Working families are the engine of the economy. Our taxes pay the way for the welfare gimmies. Since when did the word 'work' become a dirty word?

    Bottom line here is if you are on pension, living in a one room apartment, or have limited fiscal responsibilities, you don't need a tax break. Its those that are fueling the economy that need the help.

  • catmac 8/30/2010 5:42:42 PM - Report Abuse

    "The double income, 'rich' family needs the energy credit more than the single 'poor' family."
    and then you wrote-
    "THATS the point.
    He shouldn't be getting a dime. He doesn't need it! Regardless of how much, anything is too much!"
    You don't find that contrary? just for argument sake?

  • Phillip Morris 8/30/2010 4:34:11 PM - Report Abuse

    "so the guy probably either doesn't qualify or qualify for much."
    THATS the point.
    He shouldn't be getting a dime. He doesn't need it! Regardless of how much, anything is too much!

    Stop rolling over and taking it. Its YOUR tax money.

  • catmac 8/30/2010 9:33:44 AM - Report Abuse

    Who is eligible?
    The maximum credit will be reduced for a single person with adjusted net income over $35,000, and eliminated when income exceeds $48,000. It would be reduced for families with adjusted family net income over $45,000, and eliminated when income exceeds $65,000.
    It looks to be on a sliding scale, so the guy probably either doesn't qualify or qualify for much. But continue on making stuff up to insult people like usual and to heck with the truth.

  • Phillip Morris 8/29/2010 4:39:59 PM - Report Abuse

    Joy, so you agree then.
    He's got a $125,000 investment sitting there and pulling in $40k+/year. A lower tax bracket making that money go further. Benefits for life so he doesn't have to pay for money sucking items like pills, dental, eyeglasses, medical devices and semi-private hosptial stays and nursing homes.(Just to name a few)

    And if he needs a nursing home,(like Extendicare) the tax credit has nothing to do with his health. That's a red herring you conjured up.

    Bottom line here is your daddy is the prime example of another person with their hands out that dosen't need it. And that cash (moneh) comes from all our hard earned and paid taxes.
    Tell us how he felt paying union dues to the USA headquartered Steelworkers in Pittsburgh. LOL?

  • joy_3 8/29/2010 2:28:38 PM - Report Abuse

    Philip Morn, his house is paid for-not worth more than $125. Yep his income after working underground and all the health concerns make him an ideal home owner. Let us all throw him in a nursing home at 67 years for the next thirty years so we can waste his great INCO moneh at Extended Care-private run nursing home. LOL

  • Phillip Morris 8/29/2010 9:57:02 AM - Report Abuse

    Widow for 10 years. So he has only himself to pay for.
    Alone in a home that's fully paid. Pulling in over $3,000 a month pension. In a lower tax bracket AND indexed to inflation.

    Tell us joy, if he's sooooooooo poor, why doesn't he sell that empty home he invested in? Why should tax payers fund someone that owns an empty $1/4 million home and makes almost $40,000 a year? Not to mention he has lifetime benefits AND Canada Pension?

    Your example is EXACTLY the case that exemplifies the waste this program is. The drag on the taxbase.

    Great info for us all indeed!

  • joy_3 8/28/2010 12:51:07 PM - Report Abuse

    Great info for my dad who is widowed and has a limited INCO pension from 10 years but still lives in his house in Hanmer.

  • Linux_Advocat 8/27/2010 11:08:32 PM - Report Abuse

    Thnx for posting the link JohnnyG76.

  • Phillip Morris 8/27/2010 8:38:45 PM - Report Abuse

    Meanwhile the ones that work hard, and try to get ahead continue to pay the way for everybody else.
    The double income, 'rich' family needs the energy credit more than the single 'poor' family. The costs of going to and from work, shopping, and taking your kids to sports uses more energy than a one bedroom apartment dweller that sits and does nothing.
    Ripped off again folks.

  • Tomcat 8/27/2010 4:45:30 PM - Report Abuse

    Thanks Johnny, why couldn't NL do that?

  • JG76 8/27/2010 2:12:44 PM - Report Abuse

    here's a direct link for more information: http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/northern_energy_credit
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