News & Views

Why should working Canadians cover the cost of unnecessary perks for high-income corporate managers and their clients?
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Liberal and Conservative cuts mean large corporations continue to pay the lowest tax rates in the postwar era. Canada can’t afford to maintain this, writes C4TF's economist, Dr. DT Cochrane, in the Toronto Star.
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Canadians for Tax Fairness has tracked the Liberal government's promises on fair taxation since 2015, most of which remain undelivered, and proposed measures that could be implemented in Budget 2022, to raise over $92 billion for the priorities that the new Liberal/NDP agreement has outlined.
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Canadians for Tax Fairness supports the call for a United Nations convention on tax, in line with a new proposal by the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ).
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Today, in response to Vladimir Putin's ongoing attack on Ukraine, the End Snow-Washing Coalition, comprised of Canadians for Tax Fairness, Transparency International Canada, and Publish What you Pay Canada, sent the following letter to the Canadian government, urging immediate coordinated federal and provincial work on a publicly accessible, beneficial ownership registry system, to prevent nefarious actors from authoritarian regimes, including Putin's inner circle, from hiding the proceeds of crime in Canadian entities, while they engage in acts that violate international law or threaten the territorial sovereignty of other nations.
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With Ottawa’s huge deficit due to the pandemic, there is no better time to increase the capital gains tax inclusion rate to 75%, writes Amir Barnea.
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Canada has lost over $1.1 trillion in corporate tax over the last two decades, compared to what we would’ve raised if corporations were paying at the statutory rate of the 1990s. Here's what we could have gotten instead...
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Canadians for Tax Fairness is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Interim Executive Director, Katrina Miller, replacing Toby Sanger, who is retiring.
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How do those at the very top continue to grab an oversized share of incomes and wealth, both in Canada and globally? Hint: It's the capital gains. (Originally published in Canadian Dimension.)