News Archive
2020-05-21
While the criteria state that corporations that have been found criminally guilty of tax evasion can’t apply, the reality is that there are no large corporations in Canada that have recently been criminally convicted of tax evasion
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2020-05-20
Our pressure has paid off. Canada Revenue Agency recently announced that it will continue to provide benefits to Canadians who are unable to file their taxes until at least September.
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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.