News Archive
2016-09-20
The Parliamentary Finance Committee will soon start hearings to find out how we should be spending our tax money and this summer they accepted briefs from interested organizations.
"There are three ways the government could raise additional revenue," says Dennis Howlett, executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness. "These options, if fully implemented, could raise an additional $20 billion annually."
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2016-09-12
It is coming in trickles, but the Canada Revenue Agency is releasing information about their actions on the Panama Papers case. Will they keep up the momentum?
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2016-09-12
The mega-law Canadian law firm that provided advice to KPMG clients about using tax schemes to hide assets during divorces has hired former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Dentons says Harper,who has no law training, will provide clients with advice on maximizing value in global markets. Under Harper, wealthy Canadians shipped record-breaking amounts to tax havens.
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2016-09-08
"Does it come pre-loaded with a tax-dodging app?"
That was one of many reader comments to media stories of the launch of the IPhone 7. Will Apple's bad corporate behaviour affect consumer choice?
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2016-09-07
Is "too big to fail" turning into "too big to pay"? That's the billion dollar question posed on our opinion page by Canadian economist Armine Yalnizyan.
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2016-09-01
This week, Dennis Howlett talked with Radio Canada International's Lynn Desjardins about the widely publicized Apple tax dodge. In this interview he gives a clear explanation of what's going on there and what is happening here in Canada.
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2016-08-30
The European Union has kickstarted a pushback against the multinationals that are using every trick in the book to avoid paying tax.
After an intensive three-year investigation,the EU commission ruled that Ireland’s tax arrangements with Apple were illegal and provided up to a 13-billion-Euro subsidy ($14.5 billion) plus interest. And that ruling should be instructive to other governments.
How much corporate tax has Apple paid to Canada? Your guess is as good as ours. But estimates that the US government could be owed up to $60 billion send a clear message that Canada has likely dropped the ball on this issue.
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2016-08-08
Three months ago the Panama Papers made headlines(link is external) revealing a global web of tax dodging that touched every part of the globe - including Canada. The schemes were so blatant that they resulted in political resignations(link is external), law enforcement investigations and government promises to crackdown.
"If we can lay criminal charges, we will lay criminal charges.… nobody will be able to hide," promised Canada's Revenue Minister.
So has anything changed?
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2016-07-29
Canadians for Tax Fairness wants provincial premiers to clamp down on the growing use of anonymous companies as part of tax scams. The first step? A public registry of the beneficial owners of companies. That would be an important step towards global efforts to fight tax evasion and money laundering.
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2016-07-27
There is a court case going on in the US right now that is a Master Class in how super-corporations scam the tax system.