News Archive
2017-05-08
"It's legal."
That's the cynical, shoulder-shrugging response corporate Canada and many politicians give when confronted with the widespread use of tax havens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
Well here's an idea - let's make it illegal. If you are in Nova Scotia at the end of the month, there's an opportunity to find out more.
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2017-04-26
The short answer is - not likely. But the latest Canadian direct foreign investment figures hold some good news for taxpayers fed up with the multi-billion corporate use of tax havens.
It's the first significant decrease in a decade in the total amount of corporate money in the top 10 tax havens.
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2017-04-10
The treasuries of many developing countries have been depleted while multinationals and wealthy individuals shift profits to tax havens. Is this a job for the United Nations?
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2017-03-22
Closing Tax Loopholes deferred
Spooked by what Trump might do on taxes in the United States, the Liberal government has deferred meaningful action on closing unfair and ineffective tax loopholes in this year's federal budget.
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2017-03-21
Canadians want Finance Minister Bill Morneau to have a vision - and a plan - that creates fairness and gets our tax system back on track. Anything less is a broken promise.
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2017-03-21
It is widely regarded that changing tax policy was a key element in reducing seniors' poverty in Canada. In this paper presented at Carleton University's Institute for Political Economy(link is external), Tax Fairness Executive Director Dennis Howlett outlines how tax policy can increase democratic engagement, reduce poverty and strengthen communities.
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2017-03-20
Politicians, often patronizingly, like to talk about how drawing up a country's budget is similar to the process for a family budget. We think that is a stretch. But for the sake of this article we will roll with it.
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2017-03-07
It can be difficult to see how tax laws themselves can be sources of sex discrimination, but no matter how gender neutral tax laws may be, they are almost never completely gender-equal. In recent years in Canada, it has become very obvious that tax laws play a big role in intensifying the concentration of after-tax incomes and wealth in the hands of the most economically-powerful and thus politically-powerful actors.