Reading Time: 3 minutes By targeting small business owners, the federal government is undermining the very essence of economic growth. And they’ve pulled this trick before
Tag: Taxation
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
Canadian business growth stymied by governments
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red tape, rising taxes, tax reform, increasing minimum wages and other policy initiatives all smother business investment
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 small business tax grab will hit Atlantic Canada hard
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax
The new digital economy will force a tax revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes The industrial-era tax system is quickly becoming obsolete
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
Courting Amazon: the ends don’t always justify the means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Incentive packages often include tax breaks on property, income or permit exemptions – and taxpayers pay the freight
Tax reforms will put the brakes on economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Professionals, farmers and entrepreneurs are paying their fair share; raising their taxes will dampen investment and risk-taking