Submission: Enact a broad-based and avoidance-proof digital services tax
To Finance Canada regarding the Digital Services Tax Consultation, 18 June 2021 (addendum 22 February 2022):
Show us the money: Time for Trudeau to ante up to help save the climate
"On the economic front we lack not material resources but lucidity and courage." Those words are found in a 1940 pamphlet titled How to Pay for the War, written by pioneering economist John Maynard Keynes. C4TF economist D.T. Cochrane writes in Ricochet. ...
Billionaires, run for your rocket ships: the pitchforks are coming!
It turns out Donald Trump’s not the only stratospherically wealthy serial tax-dodger that everyone loves to h
Jackpot
Author(s): Michael Mechanic
Publish Date: 2021
How the super-rich really live, and how their wealth harms us all.
Some of Canada’s biggest companies saw record profits during the pandemic
Corporate COVID profiteers include major real estate companies, TC Energy, and retail giant Couche-Tard. C4TF economist D.T. Cochrane spells it out.
Submission: The links between fighting inequality, economic growth, and Budget 2021
To the Senate Finance Committee RE Bill C-30 and the Budget:
Submission: Taxes, loopholes and whistle-blowers; how to improve Budget 2021
To the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance regarding the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-30):
Report: Pandemic Profits and the Public Purse
Summary
Report
Canadians for Tax Fairness has identified 50 Canadian companies that reaped record profits in 2020. The companies collectively added $13.4 billion to their bottom line. At least seven of the record-setting companies, or their subsidiaries, collected the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS).
Almost three quarters of the 142 companies examined—those with over CAD$100 million in annual profit — had higher profit margins in 2020 than their average margins over the previous 20 years.
Submission: Ignore the "Deficit Chicken-littles"
To the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, regarding a K-shaped pandemic recovery: