News Archive
2020-05-20
The Institute doesn’t acknowledge that taxes are what keep our society functioning, both in good times but especially in crises like this one.
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2020-05-05
Cargill Ltd, which operates the High River, Alberta slaughterhouse that is Canada’s single largest COVID-19 outbreak, has another dirty secret: it channels most of the profits from its Canadian operations to its American billionaire owners through holding companies based in the tax haven of Luxembourg.
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2020-04-27
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has sided with Loblaw in a lengthy case the Canada Revenue Agency brought against the corporate giant over $368-million in taxes
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2020-04-23
Pressure is mounting on governments to ensure COVID-19 funding doesn’t go to companies that exploit tax havens or use public funds to pad their profits.
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2020-04-03
Emergency measures to deal with the economic fallout from Covid-19 will push this year’s deficit toward $200 billion, almost four times the previous record and by far the largest in Canada’s history.
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2020-03-18
The federal government's additional economic and income bridging measures will go a long way to quickly help workers and employers deal with the economic fall-out from the COVID-19 crisis.
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2020-03-17
The federal government should make significant investments now to help Canadians weather an unprecedented health and economic crisis, according to this year’s Alternative Federal Budget.
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2020-03-07
Despite introducing measures to advance gender equality, the federal government’s actions have only gone so far. Canada still has one of the largest gender wage gaps of all OECD countries.
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2020-02-19
A new tax on top incomes was among the highlights of B.C.’s 2020-21 budget, unveiled this week.