Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa can simplify the tax system and promote economic growth at the same time
Tag: Taxation
Taxing foreigners no answer to Toronto’s housing woes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea might have some intuitive appeal but misses the bigger point – Toronto needs more housing
Feds’ infrastructure plan unlikely to spur economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Simply calling a project “infrastructure” does not automatically make it an economically worthwhile endeavour
Reality bites carbon pricing scheme in Canada and beyond
Reading Time: 3 minutes If three key assumptions are not met, carbon pricing will always yield lower benefits than advocates suggest
Trudeau government looking at hiking capital gains tax
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just might be the single most damaging policy change the Liberal government could implement
Tax relief in B.C. budget misses ‘pro-growth’ mark
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government could have gotten a greater economic bang by cutting other taxes instead
Government’s spendthrift ways are burying Albertans in debt
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government’s claim that Alberta’s deficit is as big as it is because of forces outside of the province’s control is untrue
Deeper deficits spurred by increases in public school spending
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments have been spending more money to educate a smaller number of students
B.C.’s carbon tax not the ‘gold standard’ it’s made out to be
Reading Time: 4 minutes B.C.’s “revenue neutral” carbon tax will result in a cumulative $865 million tax increase between 2013/14 and 2018/19
Another broken Liberal promise: tax cuts for the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau government’s list of broken campaign promises just keeps getting longer