What is the difference between deducting future care costs and deducting from future earnings from income tax calculations?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pelletier v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2013 ONSC 6898 (CanLII):
In Andrews v. Grand & Toy Alberta Ltd., 1978 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 229, 8 A.R. 182, 3 C.C.L.T. 225, 83 D.L.R. (3d) 452, 19 N.R. 50, [1978] 1 W.W.R. 577, Dickson J., as he then was, held that the projected cost of necessities of life should be included in the calculation of future care costs, but a deduction should be made from the award of future earnings for the percentage of earnings attributable to the necessities of a person in a normal state.
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