Jackpot
Author(s): Michael Mechanic
Publish Date: 2021
How the super-rich really live, and how their wealth harms us all.
Some of Canada’s biggest companies saw record profits during the pandemic
Corporate COVID profiteers include major real estate companies, TC Energy, and retail giant Couche-Tard. C4TF economist D.T. Cochrane spells it out.
Book Review: Mark Carney's (untaxed) Value(s)
Mark Carney is a decent chap, that’s plain enough to see. So we read his Value(s) book, in case we might agree. In all 528 pages, there wasn’t much on tax. So it left us more impressed by what his Value(s) lacks. ...
Submission: The links between fighting inequality, economic growth, and Budget 2021
To the Senate Finance Committee RE Bill C-30 and the Budget:
Submission: Taxes, loopholes and whistle-blowers; how to improve Budget 2021
To the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance regarding the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-30):
Report: Pandemic Profits and the Public Purse
Summary
Report
Canadians for Tax Fairness has identified 50 Canadian companies that reaped record profits in 2020. The companies collectively added $13.4 billion to their bottom line. At least seven of the record-setting companies, or their subsidiaries, collected the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS).
Almost three quarters of the 142 companies examined—those with over CAD$100 million in annual profit — had higher profit margins in 2020 than their average margins over the previous 20 years.
Submission: Ignore the "Deficit Chicken-littles"
To the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, regarding a K-shaped pandemic recovery:
Canada could gain $8 billion from excess profits tax
A tax on excess profits during the Covid-19 pandemic would realize $7.9 billion in federal government revenue, according to an estimate by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on 27 April.
IMF calls for progressive taxes on wealth and excess profits
A new IMF report calls for more progressive taxation to finance social spending, including increases to top marginal income tax rates, eliminating tax deductions that predominantly benefit higher incomes such as capital incomes, and installing inheritance taxes, wealth taxes, temporary income surtaxes and excess profits taxes.