home
français
contact donate
home
français contact donate

  • Our Ideas Our Ideas
    • Our Ideas
    • Income Inequality
    • Green Economy
    • Democratic Renewal
    • Social Democracy
  • Training & Leadership Training & Leadership
    • Training & Leadership
    • Online Leadership School
    • Training Signup
    • Request a Training
  • About Us About Us
    • About Us
    • Board & Staff
    • Ed's Vision
    • Broadbent Fellows
    • Progress Summit 2021
    • Awards
    • Contact Us
  • Get Involved Get Involved
    • Get Involved
    • Job Opportunities
    • Events
    • Newsletter Sign-up
    • Support Our Work
  • PressProgress
  • News & Blogs

Pages tagged "tax policy"


Freeing Canada from the Trump millstone

Posted on News & Blogs by Rick Smith · August 04, 2020 2:44 PM

The impact of Donald Trump on Canada has been, it’s fair to say, negative. Much of this has been overt: A few examples include a botched pandemic response that is lengthening an economically damaging border closure, never-ending trade retaliations against Canadian industry, and a dismantling of the United States’ refugee policy such that it now contravenes our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read more

The Institute's Katrina Miller discusses our latest report on the case for a Canadian Wealth Tax

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina Miller · June 23, 2020 2:36 PM

The Institute's Program Director, Katrina Miller, was on yesterday's Danielle Smith Show to discuss the Institute's latest report, Multi-Millionaires and Fair Taxes: The Case for a Wealth Tax. The segment dives into the report and dispels myths about the Wealth Tax. Listen and share here.

Read more

Five tests to make sure bailouts benefit people, not corporations

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina miller · May 05, 2020 4:16 PM

Canada’s corporate bailouts need to cut out tax dodgers and profiteers, and show long-term commitments are attached to the money.

Read more

Liberal Income Tax Cut Costs a Lot, Accomplishes Little

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · February 03, 2020 9:00 AM

A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows that the personal income tax cut proposed by the Trudeau Liberals will cost more in terms of lost revenue than first thought, and will strongly favour high income earners and families.

Read more

Fair Taxes and Global Capitalism

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · December 17, 2019 2:16 PM

In recent years, progressives and social democrats have begun to embrace a much bolder tax fairness agenda than was the case even five years ago. This is especially true in the United States where Democratic Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both made the case for a significant tax on large holdings of wealth, the closure of personal tax loopholes for investment income such as stock options, and serious corporate tax reform. In the 2019 federal election, the NDP similarly called for a wealth tax, higher taxation of capital gains in the personal income tax system, and a higher corporate tax rate.

Read more

The Conservative Platform – Tax Cuts for the Affluent, Austerity for the Many

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · October 17, 2019 2:13 PM

The Conservative platform put forward by Andrew Scheer delivers tax cuts for the relatively affluent, to be paid for by largely unspecified cuts to spending on social programs and public services. That is a poor deal for ordinary working families who get much more each year in program benefits like public health care and post-secondary education and child benefits and public pensions than they pay for in personal income taxes.

Read more

When Income Tax Cuts Leave You Worse Off

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · September 26, 2019 9:30 AM

The competing personal income tax cuts proposed by the Liberal and Conservative parties in this federal election are almost identical in terms of goals and re-distributive impact, and neither advance a truly progressive agenda.

Read more

To fight populism and racism, close tax loopholes for the rich

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · April 05, 2019 9:00 AM

It is widely argued that the rise of extreme income and wealth inequality, combined with the stagnation of wages of the middle-class and working class, have helped fuel the rise of right-wing populism and racism around the world. Many in the political centre, and not just the left, have called for robust policy measures to help create more equal societies and to counter the perception – and reality – that the economic system is rigged against ordinary working people.

Read more

Are Canadians overtaxed? The equation is complicated

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · January 09, 2019 11:09 AM

 

 


This blogpost originally appeared in the Globe and Mail. 

Partly fuelled by reports from conservative think-tanks such as the Fraser Institute, many Canadians believe that they are taxed far too heavily and that the tax “burden” has been rising over time. Recently published Statistics Canada data show, in fact, that most individual Canadians pay very low effective rates of personal income tax, and that the tax “burden” has been falling.

Read more

Corporate-tax cuts are no solution to Canada’s competitiveness problem

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · November 01, 2018 9:00 AM

The federal government is widely expected to announce a new competitiveness strategy as part of its Fall Economic Statement. Corporate Canada has been lobbying hard for a new round of corporate-tax cuts in response to recent tax “reform” under President Donald Trump in the United States.

Read more

  • ← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Next →

Sign up for email updates from Broadbent Institute

Receive our Best of the Month and stay up to date with the latest ideas, news, events and blogs from the Institute.


Connect with us:

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Twitter iconTwitter
  • YouTube iconYoutube
  • Instagram iconInstagram
  • Contact iconContact
Support our work. Please donate today.

Connect with us:

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Twitter iconTwitter
  • YouTube iconYoutube
  • Instagram iconInstagram
  • Contact iconContact
Broadbent Institute logo PressProgress

A project of Broadbent Institute

Contact us

Broadbent Institute
PO Box: Station B, PO Box 1273
Ottawa, ON K1P5R3

message iconSend us a message phone icon1-613-688-2071

Links

Our Ideas Training & Leadership Get Involved About Us Newsletter PressProgress

A project of Broadbent Institute

Broadbent Institute staff are proud members of UFCW 1006A

All material Copyright © 2019 Broadbent Institute

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Accessibility