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BC budget increases tax rate on corporations and the wealthy
February 25, 2013 |
The BC government has done the obvious things that had to be done to deal with their budget deficit. Taxes had to be raised.
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Canada loses billions in revenue to tax havens
February 18, 2013 |
The growing use of tax havens is costing Canadians an estimated $7.8 billion annually, the executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness has told a Parliamentary committee studying the issue.
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Redeye
Redeye

Canada's tax system in dire need of reform

February 16, 2013
| The idea that wealthy people should pay a much higher percentage of their income in tax sounds pretty radical these days. But a new report says it’s an important way to make taxes more fair.
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Expert Panel on Business Taxation sides with local governments

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Keith Reynolds
| September 27, 2012

Hundreds of mayors, municipal councillors and regional district directors are meeting this week in Victoria at the annual gathering of the Union of BC Municipalities. And not surprisingly, one of the major topics of discussion in the first three days has been the taxes local governments collect to provide their services.

The local government leaders heard some good news about their taxes that have been under attack.

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74 per cent of Canadians favour a Financial Transaction Tax
June 20, 2012 |
There is growing anger and resentment that international banks and large corporations haven't paid enough to fix the global financial crisis.
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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

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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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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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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

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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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