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Last fall, the Liberals promised to identify new ways of taxing inequality -- this budget is their chance to follow through on that commitment
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Recent News Updates
2021-05-04
Watch truth be spoken to the “deficit Chicken-littles” and K-shaped pandemic recovery profiteers by C4TF’s economist and researcher, Dr. D.T. Cochrane, in today's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
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2021-04-29
A tax on excess profits during the Covid-19 pandemic would realize $7.9 billion in federal government revenue, according to an estimate by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on 27 April.
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2021-04-29
The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequalities, and countries should enact progressive taxes to reduce gaps in income and in access to services, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s April 2021 Fiscal Monitor Report.
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2021-04-29
With his first 100 days in office as yet to pass, US President Joe Biden is moving without delay to introduce significant progressive tax reforms, which would end and reverse the decades-old race to the bottom on corporate taxes, and increase taxes on the wealthiest American households.
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2021-04-22
The 2021 federal budget makes important advances in a number of areas, and steps towards reducing inequality, and includes some positive tax reforms, but also leaves some glaring omissions...
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2021-04-19
The 2021 Federal Budget includes important commitments, particularly on childcare and climate change, a $15/hr minimum wage but much more could be achieved for Canadians if the Liberals took stronger action to make our tax system fairer.