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Business Taxes in Saskatchewan
Taking Stock for Progressive and Effective Reform Download 207.74 KB 20 pages Attachments Saskatchewan Notes: Lowering Taxes Comes at a Cost: What the Business Lobby…
CCPA-SK organizes Citizens’ Budget Commission
The Saskatchewan government appointed a commission to review business taxes in Saskatchewan earlier in the year. This Business Tax Commission will release its report on…
The Share of Income Tax Paid by the Rich
The Business Press Gives another Lesson on How to Deceive with Statistics Download 115.45 KB7 pages
Free money? Think twice.
Free money for everyone when the Finance Minister makes a mistake! I’m referring of course to the government’s proposal to give a third of “unanticipated“…
Cold Cuts
The Impact of Cuts to the City of Winnipeg’s Business Tax Download 148.55 KB18 pages Attachments FastFacts: Cold Cuts: The Impact of Cuts to the…
‘Tax freedom day?’ Not really
Tax Freedom Day has come and gone. Feel any richer yet? Almost every cause has designated a day of the year to draw attention to…
Don’t believe the hype: What’s really behind the Fraser Institute’s “Tax Freedom Day”
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Each summer the Fraser Institute announces the arrival of “tax freedom day:” the day when Canadians allegedly stop…
Tax Freedom Day
A Flawed, Incoherent, and Pernicious Concept Download 215.96 KB27 pages
What goes up must come down: Budget cuts make BC communities more economically vulnerable
BC’s economy is a lot like a rollercoaster ride. Commodity prices for our resource exports (like energy, forest and mining products) go up and down…
Commodity-driven economic boost masks growing BC regional divide
(Vancouver) Provincial taxation and spending policies have worsened the gap between BC’s two economies — the diversified Lower Mainland and Victoria areas, and the more…
BC’s Regional Divide
How Tax and Spending Policies Affect BC Communities Download 460.04 KB 60 pages This study builds on analysis originally published in Bleeding the Hinterland: A…
New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite outraged business and media reaction to the NDP’s demand for rescinding a new round of corporate tax…
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