12 May 2020
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Photo: Jeff Bezos, Amazon owner and one of the richest people in the world. Amazon, which is notorious for avoiding taxes, is among those corporations profiting during the pandemic. Steve Jurvetson, flickr
The Fair Tax News, 12 May 2020
By Erika Beauchesne
Super wealth tax, excess profits tax among progressive policies to tackle inequality
[This report was originally published on the website of Transparency International Canada, in collaboration with Publish What You Pay Canada. Our three organizations collaborate as The End Snow-Washing Coalition to fight tax-dodging, money-laundering, corruption and financial crime.]
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has sided with Loblaw in a lengthy case the Canada Revenue Agency brought against the corporate giant over $368-million in taxes it avoided by shifting its profits to a subsidiary “bank” it established in the tax haven of Barbados.
9 April 2020
The federal government has moved with impressive speed and flexibility to “do whatever it takes” to deal with the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic—but there’s still much work to do to protect vulnerable workers and businesses, and to safeguard public finances against abuse.
Emergency measures will mean Canada's largest ever deficit at $200 billion.
[This report was originally published on the website of Transparency International Canada, in collaboration with Publish What You Pay Canada. Our three organizations collaborate as The End Snow-Washing Coalition to fight tax-dodging, money-laundering, corruption and financial crime.]
CONTENTS
Introduction: What is beneficial ownership transparency?
"This has the potential to become one of the biggest and most expensive boondoggles in Canadian history. We should be concerned not just about the large cost, but also because wasteful programs undermine confidence in government, and in government programs." ...
10 March 2020
As Canada struggles with low oil prices and the looming threat of a global recession, the federal government has an opportunity to fund climate action with tax justice.
Canada still has one of the largest gender wage gaps of all OECD countries.