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Tax Cuts for the Rich Only Benefit the Rich, Study Reconfirms

Proponents of cutting the taxes of the rich commonly claim that it will encourage investment, leading to innovation, increased productivity, and jobs. There is effectively no evidence for these supposed benefits. Conversely, there is ample evidence that these cuts worsen inequality, which is associated with many social maladies.

Podcast: Likeville interviews C4TF

Likeville Podcast host John Faithful Hamer in conversation with Darren Shore, Communications Coordinator for the advocacy group “Canadians for Tax Fairness,” about how the wealthy avoid paying their fair share, and what we can do to close the loopholes that make this possible.

 

Report: Uber-low Taxes Lyft Ride-sharing Revenue

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INTRODUCTION

Uber and Lyft have quickly become large, powerful corporations. Key to the growth of both companies is cost-cutting through tax and regulatory avoidance. At the centre of this avoidance is the insistence that they are not transportation companies, but rather technology companies—and that their drivers are not employees. This pretext allows them to avoid payroll taxes for drivers, as well as the responsibility for collecting and remitting sales taxes.

Amazon’s other side: Quebec doc goes undercover

Amazon’s negligible tax bills, the millions of dollars it has received in tax breaks and subsidies over many years, the unfair advantage it thus maintains over local businesses, as well as its ofte

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