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Fuelling the tax revolt: What is wrong with the NDP's anti-HST campaign

The Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) has devoted much of its energy in recent months to opposing the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and British Columbia. The new taxes came into effect on July 1, 2010. The HST merges the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) in both provinces. Items covered by the GST that were previously exempt from the PST are included under the new HST.

Much of the Canadian left has been supportive of the anti-HST campaign on the grounds that consumption taxes are regressive (i.e. people pay the same rate of tax regardless of income).

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G20: Case for the Financial Transfer Tax deepens

Okay, tax is not the sexiest subject ever. But I learned some pretty worrisome stuff at the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) press conference at the G20 media centre.

With 31 member countries, the OECD is the main group charged by the G20 with working towards "a fairer world where there will be no more safe havens for tax evaders." And they report that the political push to their cause that came from Pittsburgh last fall, has amped up the drive toward transparency.

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Not Rex's Humberto: Tax the bastards!

Not Rex's Humberto: Tax the bastards!
'Politicians all profess to want to hear it from the kitchen table. Well here it is.'

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Not Rex's Humberto: Tax the bastards!
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Canadians for Tax Fairness
Tackle the tax havens
May 23, 2012 |
Tax havens allow rich individuals, Canadian banks and resource companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes each year.
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Gerry Caplan

Linking higher taxes on the rich and Nazism

By Gerry Caplan
| April 30, 2012

Jim Doak is a man with a mission, a money manager in Toronto anxious to share with the world his strong views on taxing the rich. Last week, on both CTV and in the National Post, he explained that the Ontario NDP's demand for higher taxes on the rich was "ethnic cleansing," since it would "force a defined group, in this case those with annual incomes over $500,000, to emigrate."

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United Steelworkers
Steelworkers applaud NDP improvements to Ontario's budget
April 25, 2012 |
The USW welcomes the modest tax increase for Ontario's richest and income increase for Ontario's poorest achieved by New Democrats in budget negotiations with the provincial government.
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Canadians for Tax Fairness
Ontario budget should help to close, not widen gap between rich and poor
April 13, 2012 |
There is a simple solution to closing the fiscal gap, one that would also help to close the income gap between rich and poor. That is raising taxes on the wealthy.
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Karl Nerenberg

Hill Dispatches: A budget that favours the environment, the poor and the struggling middle class

By Karl Nerenberg
| March 15, 2012

A federal budget has just come out that will reduce unemployment to 6 per cent, close tax loopholes, repair cities and institute a forward-looking green strategy.

It is not Jim Flaherty's budget. We will only get that on March 29.

This one is the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) and it comes from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

The CCPA has been in the alternative budget business for 17 years now.

The Centre undertakes this detailed, labour-intensive exercise in an effort to show, each year, that Canadians have evidence-based fiscal policy options.

There is nothing inevitable -- ordained by the infallible logic of economic science -- about the government of the day's prescriptions or forecasts.

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Inter Pares
Creating economic justice for all
February 6, 2012 |
Rising inequality is not just present in Canada, but all over the world. Yet while poverty is on the rise, the profits of large corporations are skyrocketing.
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Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Commission on Quality Public Services and Tax Fairness launches public hearings in response to Drummond study
January 6, 2012 |
In the absence of any alternative inquiry into the "reform" of Ontario's public services as proposed by the McGuinty government through its Drummond Commission, the PSFC will begin its own study.
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