Families welcome tax breaks: Child-care benefits spell immediate savings for working families
Vancouver Sun
May 3, 2006
By: Michael Kane

Tuesday's family-friendly budget fulfilled all the tax pledges made by the federal Conservatives and threw in a couple of surprises

... families like Anita and Ken Wilks of Port Moody.

They see their big break as the universal child-care benefit which, starting in July, will provide $100 a month to help with the $600 daycare bill for their four-year-old son, Evan, although Anita was disappointed the benefit will be taxable in the hands of the lowest-income spouse...