Ministère du Revenu du Québec
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Revenu Québec is the department of the government of the Province of Quebec
, Canada
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Effective 2005, the Ministère du Revenu du Québec has been renamed Revenu Québec.
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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- sees to the collection of income taxIncome taxAn income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate...
and consumption taxes, while ensuring that each person pays a fair share of the financing of public servicesPublic servicesPublic services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly or by financing private provision of services. The term is associated with a social consensus that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income...
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- administers the support-payment collection program (PAPA) in order to ensure that the support to which children and custodial parents are entitled is received on a regular basis;
- administers taxation-related social programs, as well as any other tax-collection and redistribution program entrusted to it by the government; and
- makes recommendations to the government concerning fiscal policy and programs.
Effective 2005, the Ministère du Revenu du Québec has been renamed Revenu Québec.