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Bringing balance and fairness to Canada's tax system

By Brian Topp
| November 29, 2011

In a policy paper released on November 28th, Brian Topp shares his views on the Canadian tax system, and proposals for improving it. Read the proposal below, or download the full version (including footnotes) by clicking here.

Part 1: Back to basics: why do we have taxes anyway?

Taxation has become the third rail in Canadian politics. The only time we ever hear our current political leaders utter the word "tax," it's immediately followed with "cut." That has to change.

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Canada needs tax fairness not the HST

We’re long overdue for serious tax reform in this country. Most Canadians agree on this. But the new unfair Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and B.C. is not what most of us had in mind.

Earlier this year the Harper government reached agreements with Ontario and BC to merge the provincial sales tax (PST) and federal goods and services tax (GST) into a single harmonized tax (HST). The new HST is an unfair tax for two key reasons.

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