News Archive
2019-06-02
CBC investigative journalist Harvey Cashore uncovered that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently reached an out of court settlement with wealthy KPMG clients who were caught using what the CRA called a grossly negligent offshore tax sham. This is a disturbing development for many reasons.
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2019-05-31
One of the most important tools Canada can use to fight global corruption would cost less money to build than a few kilometres of road. That was the message delivered this week by John Penrose, a member of parliament for the UK government -- the first in the world to implement a publicly accessible registry.
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2019-03-19
Canadians for Tax Fairness is encouraged the federal government is finally committing to limit the stock option deduction, one of Canada’s most regressive tax loopholes, but the budget misses out on other opportunities to tackle tax dodging.
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2019-03-18
Justin Trudeau and his Finance Minister Bill Morneau are in a tight spot. They’re facing an election in seven months and need to commit funds to the promises they made during the last election.
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2019-03-13
We’ll closely analyze the federal government’s 2019/20 budget when it is tabled
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2019-03-04
A documentary about one of the most explosive leaks in history makes its Canadian debut this week in Toronto.
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2019-02-21
Mark your calendars. Finance Minister Bill Morneau will unveil his government’s budget for the year.
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2019-02-15
RCMP and the CRA recently shut down a massive international money laundering network across Canadian cities.
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2019-01-22
Countries around the world lose at least US$500 billion in annual tax revenues from international corporate tax avoidance and profit shifting, including through tax havens.
But we now finally have an opportunity to make some real progress on international corporate tax reform, with proposals outlined in a new paper just published by the Independent Commission for International Corporate Tax Reform.
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2019-01-08
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to U.S. Congress, got the media and internet buzzing recently when she told TV host Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes that the U.S. should introduce a tax rate of 70% on incomes of over $10 million to help fund a Green New Deal.
How feasible is this—and would it work in Canada?