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Panama Papers confirm Canada's tax system is in desperate need of repair
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.A string of revelations about tax avoidance have made headlines in recent months, from the Panama...
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B.C.'s Medical Services Plan premiums a regressive tax
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B.C.'s bump in homeowner grant threshold is not the good deal suggested
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Burning questions for the leaders' debate on the economy
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Small business taxes, big loopholes
Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Small business taxes made the news last week when, during a CBC interview, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau suggested many business owners are using the...
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It's counterintuitive, but tax the rich, not the poor
Tuesday, June 2, 2015Take some money from the wealthy, give it to the poor -- why not do it? Basic accounting suggests that another $1,000 for a student with a $10,000 yearly income puts them further...
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Can we stop subsidizing executive stock options and enriching the rich?
Friday, May 22, 2015If you're a top executive at a major corporation, no need to read further; you'll know all this.But if you're an ordinary person, you may not. You've probably heard of "executive...
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Alberta rejects the Canadian legacy of tax injustice
Tuesday, May 12, 2015Rachel Notley led the Alberta NDP to victory on May 6 calling for higher taxes on corporations to pay for more teachers and better health care. Interestingly, in 1990, Bob Rae led...
View ArticleWill Nova Scotia implement a carbon tax?
There is some discussion in Nova Scotia about the possibility of the government introducing a carbon tax in the next budget. In this blog post I will introduce the context within which these...
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Canada's choice: Austerity or prosperity
Monday, January 12, 2015Imagine for a moment two societies living side by side. One has discovered and uses the wheel effectively -- a technology that makes life easier for workers and boosts the...
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Accepting Nova Scotia's tax review is better than the alternative
Monday, December 1, 2014Another big report, another display of our witlessly shallow politics, which this time has outdone itself almost to the point of comedy in its haste to pour sulphur on the head...
View ArticleTracking the distributional impacts of B.C.'s carbon tax
A colleague of mine pointed out a relatively new paper about the distributional impacts of B.C.'s carbon tax. In my work, we look at actual energy expenditures by different household groups, and...
View ArticleNova Scotia Tax Review: Eroding tax fairness
The Nova Scotia Tax Review released this week lacks an analysis of the impact its tax changes will have on Nova Scotians. Who would benefit? A simple distributional analysis of different income groups...
View ArticleYou say tomato, I say fish: or, why we we treat property taxes differently
Recently, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business received some media attention for their report on the relationship between residential and business property taxes in Ontario.While a step up...
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Memo to Nova Scotia's Tax and Regulatory Review: Raise taxes!
Monday, August 25, 2014Here's something else that would advance our cause in Nova Scotia if we could only talk about it without the pious platitudes: taxation.As it turns out the provincial government...
View ArticleHow taxes have changed over the last half century
The Fraser Institute's annual Consumer Tax Index report generated some media buzz with its outlandish claims about just how much taxes have risen since 1961. Before you get worked up about this,...
View ArticleTaxes: A conversation whose time has come
It's official.An adult conversation about taxes is beginning to take shape.Way back in 2009, CCPA research associate Hugh Mackenzie published an editorial in the Toronto Star entitled "Can we have an...
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Wynne victory exposes fallacy politicians can't win proposing tax hikes for...
Thursday, June 19, 2014Please help rabble.ca stop Harper's election fraud plan. Become a monthly supporter.Kathleen Wynne broke a number of taboos last week, proving it's possible to get elected...
View ArticleMunicipal budgets: You get what you pay for
Winnipeg's mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around what really has been a winter of discontent...
View ArticleGas taxes an opportunity for questions about Nova Scotia's tax system
Given last week's gas price gusher that propelled pump sticker shock beyond even the last record-breaking penny point set in 2012, it's little wonder Premier Stephen McNeil rushed for the cover of a...
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