tax fairness
May 23, 2012 |
Tax havens allow rich individuals, Canadian banks and resource companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes each year.
Fair Tax Summit: Building a Better Canada
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 12:07pm - Friday, March 30, 2012 - 12:07pm
Location
Lord Elgin Hotel
100 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON
K1P 5K8
Canada
Phone:
613.232.0275 x. 225
45° 25' 17.8788" N, 75° 41' 35.0736" W
See map: Google Maps
Canadians for Tax Fairness is organizing a conference for activists, researchers, labour and NGO leaders, students, environment group members, beneficiaries of social programs, journalists and elected officials to discuss how we can build a movement for progressive taxation in order to protect social programs and build a more equal society.
The goals of the conference also include:
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.