News Archive
2016-10-20
Canada is a cash cow for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who is estimated to be worth $51 billion. Yet his company pays less tax than the average Facebook user.
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2016-09-29
Donald Trump’s contention that it is “smart” not to pay your fair share of taxes has provoked public outrage. But there are lots of Canadian multinationals incorporating that mantra into their business plans.
And next week one of them is going to Tax Court.
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2016-09-27
Dear Google,
Happy 18th Birthday! You've become an intrinsic part of our lives - from finding recipes, settling arguments, getting places - and even fact-checking tax fairness issues.
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2016-09-21
There is a powerful Bahamian connection in the mess that is Canada's offshore tax haven epidemic. Now a new leak to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and media reports are blowing its cover.
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2016-09-20
The Parliamentary Finance Committee will soon start hearings to find out how we should be spending our tax money and this summer they accepted briefs from interested organizations.
"There are three ways the government could raise additional revenue," says Dennis Howlett, executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness. "These options, if fully implemented, could raise an additional $20 billion annually."
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2016-09-12
It is coming in trickles, but the Canada Revenue Agency is releasing information about their actions on the Panama Papers case. Will they keep up the momentum?
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2016-09-12
The mega-law Canadian law firm that provided advice to KPMG clients about using tax schemes to hide assets during divorces has hired former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Dentons says Harper,who has no law training, will provide clients with advice on maximizing value in global markets. Under Harper, wealthy Canadians shipped record-breaking amounts to tax havens.
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2016-09-08
"Does it come pre-loaded with a tax-dodging app?"
That was one of many reader comments to media stories of the launch of the IPhone 7. Will Apple's bad corporate behaviour affect consumer choice?
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2016-09-07
Is "too big to fail" turning into "too big to pay"? That's the billion dollar question posed on our opinion page by Canadian economist Armine Yalnizyan.
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2016-09-01
This week, Dennis Howlett talked with Radio Canada International's Lynn Desjardins about the widely publicized Apple tax dodge. In this interview he gives a clear explanation of what's going on there and what is happening here in Canada.
