All three parties are promising similar deficits over the next five years, but only the NDP’s plan would reduce the amount of wealth controlled by the rich while adding $106 billion into the economy.
Le gouvernement fédéral pourrait générer plus de 90 milliards de dollars de revenus annuels supplémentaires, sans augmenter les impôts sur les Canadiens appartenant à la classe moyenne ni la classe ouvrière, grâce à l'ensemble des mesures d'équité fiscale incluses dans sa Plateforme pour l'équité fiscale 2021.
C4TF encourages all political parties to adopt these measures in their platforms during the federal election campaign.
In the 2021 Platform for Tax Fairness, Canadians for Tax Fairness advocates a series of policies that would bring over $90 billion dollars in revenue to the federal government, without increasing taxes on working or middle-class Canadians, allowing for increased investment in public services that yield high rates of economic and social return.
Uber and Lyft legally avoid paying around $135 million per year in Canadian taxes, including around $81 million in avoided EI and CPP payroll taxes, and up to $54 million in avoided corporate taxes, based on 2019 figures.
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 often-criticized labour practices and significant environmental impact, are explored in L’Envers d’Amazon, a new French-language documentary from Quebecor’s Investigative team.
Canadians for Tax Fairness (C4TF) very much welcomes the proposed introduction of a digital services tax (DST). We have strongly urged the federal government to introduce a digital services tax for many years—and we commend the government for finally committing to doing so. ...
It turns out Donald Trump’s not the only stratospherically wealthy serial tax-dodger that everyone loves to hate. He’s got more company than we thought, whose egos are likewise dwarfed only by the size of the fortunes they don’t want to share. And his company, and their companies, are just a little ticked off that we just found out.
Corporate COVID profiteers include major real estate companies, TC Energy, and retail giant Couche-Tard. C4TF economist D.T. Cochrane spells it out in Canadian Dimension.
