An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (travel expenses deduction for tradespersons)

Bill C-222 was a Conservative Private Member's Bill sponsored by MP Matt Jeneroux (Edmonton-Riverbend) creating a federal Income Tax Act deduction for skilled-trades workers who travel for work, allowing up to $4,000 in annual eligible travel-and-temporary-lodging expenses. Building Trades of Alberta and Canada's Building Trades Unions had lobbied for the deduction for over a decade as comparable to deductions available to long-haul truckers under section 8 of the Income Tax Act. The Liberal government adopted the substance into Bill C-19 (Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1) as the Labour Mobility Deduction for Tradespeople, royal assent June 23, 2022 (S.C. 2022, c. 10, sections 1 to 8).