News & Views
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?
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2018-11-22
After months of reducing expectations, Finance Minister Bill Morneau provided corporations with surprisingly large tax breaks in his mini-budget, worth $14.4 billion over the next five years.
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2018-11-22
The billions in additional corporate tax breaks from Finance Minister Bill Morneau's mini-budget may work in political terms by procuring business support in the coming election year, but there’s little reason to believe that they’ll work in economic terms.
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2018-11-20
The Auditor General’s Fall 2018 report on compliance activities by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) confirms what we’ve heard from Canadians and from CRA professionals as well: Canada’s Revenue Agency is more lenient in many ways with international and large businesses and taxpayers with offshore transactions than they are with individual Canadians.
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2018-11-02
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We're posting this excellent letter sent in by one of our supporters, Edward Carson of Toronto. If other supporters or readers would like to send in or submit letters or articles, please do so!
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Have you been procrastinating on doing your income tax return? What could make filing our tax returns an easier and more rewarding a experience?
How about getting the Canada Revenue Agency to do a provisional tax return for us?
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2018-02-27
The government is touting its Budget 2018 as setting a new standard in 'gender budgeting' as a core pillar of budget-making. It is commendable that the government has committed to examining the gender impacts of the budget in terms of education and skills development, economic participation, leadership, access to justice, poverty reduction and health, and gender equality around the world. However they seem to have forgotten about examining the gender impacts of tax policies.