News & Views
2021-10-21
We believe that fair taxation can make a better Canada, and that taxing the super-wealthy is an important first step, since we know the richest Canadians have fortunes so large that their lavish lifestyles would be unaffected by such taxes, and the Canada those taxes would help develop would mean they too would live in a safer, more beautiful, more prosperous country.
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2021-10-11
The PERT’s tax recommendations are little more than window dressing, designed to make it look like all avenues for a Reset have been considered when in fact the choices made will reinforce income and wealth inequality and create the crisis the government is hoping to avoid.
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2021-10-08
A fairer deal would include a higher share of multinational profits allocated (at least 30% of “non-routine” profits, and a lower than 10% rate for routine profits), not force countries to eliminate their digital services taxes or similar measures, and a fairer allocation formula that provides more revenue to developing countries, as the G24 group of countries have called for.
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2021-10-03
... On the one hand, this latest leak reconfirms what we have long known: the global elite use a range of unethical techniques, many of questionable legality, to hoard their wealth and avoid taxes. On the other hand, with each leak from the ICIJ we learn a little bit more about the whos and the hows of global wealth hoarding. And with each leak we are also reminded of how little has been done by the Canadian government to reign in these harmful practices. ...
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2021-10-01
... We are subsidizing the wealthiest through their private foundations to determine where highly publicly-subsidized charitable-giving funds should go, and unsurprisingly much has gone to push for further privatization of public services. ...
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2021-10-01
Canadians for Tax Fairness (C4TF) supports the introduction of a tax on luxury goods. However, as currently designed, the tax is too narrow. Further, we are concerned that the luxury tax is being offered as a substitute for a wealth tax.
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2021-10-01
... The renewed minority government must work with the other parties to effectively govern. Our hope is that the progressive elements within the Liberal party will be emboldened by the need to collaborate with the NDP and the Bloc to pass legislation. ...
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2021-09-27
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2021-09-24
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2021-09-22
Canada lost one of its greatest progressive activists, thinkers, writers, political commentators and organizers earlier this month. Murray Dobbin, the founding president of Canadians for Tax Fairness—our longest serving board member—and a giant of the Canadian left, died on 8 September after a long struggle with cancer. He was far ahead of his time in his concern for and activism about tax justice, equality, democracy, public services and controlling the power of corporations and the political and corporate elite.