Reading Time: 3 minutes The advantage this country once had over the United States has been spun on its head. And that means investment will start heading south in droves
Author: Charles Lammam
Charles Lammam was director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute.
Canada’s tax code is too complicated – even for CRA officials
Reading Time: 3 minutes As tax complexity grows, so do tax compliance costs. Canadians spend nearly $7 billion complying with the personal income tax system each year
‘Fairness’ rhetoric masks an income tax imbalance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not only does the top one per cent pay a disproportionate share of Canada’s taxes, its share has increased over the past two decades
Fed’s tax policies hurt families striving to join the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes A tax cut rewards families who work hard. Increased transfers make them more reliant on government
Trudeau’s legacy a growing national debt burden
Reading Time: 3 minutes After only two years in office, Trudeau’s legacy on federal debt is already becoming clear, and future generations of Canadians will pay for it
Economic storm clouds on Canada’s horizon
Reading Time: 4 minutes This year’s uptick in economic growth has nothing to do with current government policy that is expected to hamper future business expansion
Juggling fiscal terms doesn’t help Canada’s middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes When all of the Trudeau government’s changes are considered, 81 per cent of middle-class families now pay more in personal income taxes
Fed’s small business tax tweaks won’t help the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes The uproar across the country to Ottawa’s small business tax reforms has triggered more back-pedalling, but no good solutions
Trudeau a true believer in the nanny state
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thinks Canadians can only achieve better lives by becoming dependent on government
Trudeau’s tax cutting rhetoric doesn’t match reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government has raised income taxes on the majority of middle-class Canadian families, despite repeated claims of the opposite