Fair taxation of high wealth Canadians has become a main issue during this campaign. Why and how should we do it? Who supports it and what could we get? C4TF's first weekly factsheet of the 2021 election gets to the point.
The Bloc Québécois platform recognizes that while the government ran colossal deficits during the pandemic, the wealthiest i
The CPC released what it is calling “Canada’s Recovery Plan”. The document includes a number of tax measures.
Fair tax measures to raise over $90 billion dollars a year.
The unprecedented financial support by the federal government through the COVID-19 pandemic was critical in saving lives and preventing the crisis from becoming a catastrophe. But it has come at a cost. The federal government’s net debt is expected to double to $1.5 trillion by 2025/26.[1] This doesn’t mean we should spend or invest less; instead, we should invest more.
From childhood in her grandparents’ rural Saskatchewan farmhouse, through fourteen years in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves, and even during a BA in international development at St-Mary’s and an
“I got a raise, but it put me in the next tax bracket, so I’m actually losing money!”
C4TF uses three different terms to describe illegitimate and/or harmful efforts to lower a tax bill: tax dodging, tax evasion, and tax avoidance.&
Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, Pre-Budget Consultations for the 2022/23 Federal Budget
Proponents of cutting the taxes of the rich commonly claim that it will encourage investment, leading to innovation, increased productivity, and jobs. There is effectively no evidence for these supposed benefits. Conversely, there is ample evidence that these cuts worsen inequality, which is associated with many social maladies.