Flaherty pledges to open tax court to disabled
Nov 23 2010
The court is prevented from hearing from those who owe no taxes, but want to appeal for the right to have a Registered Disability Savings Plan and qualify for government grants… “We created the RDSP, and it’s really important to me,” said Flaherty, who has a mentally challenged son and, like other politicians, had long heard parents of the disabled pleading for options to help prepare for their old age. “The fact that someone has taxable income or not should not stand in the way of establishing their right to the disability tax credit (and RDSP),” he said.
Tags: disabilities, poverty, rights
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Law blocks disabled from people’s tax court
Nov 05 2010
A gap in recent legislation appears to have turned the people’s court for unhappy taxpayers into a court without access to the poor and disabled… For a person to be eligible to make or receive contributions to an RDSP [Registered Disability Savings Plan], that person must be sufficiently disabled to qualify in the tax year for a disability tax credit. That requires the support of a doctor, and the agreement of the Canada Revenue Agency. Doctors and the CRA have turned away folks who qualify for Canada Pension Plan disability pensions…
Tags: disabilities, poverty, rights
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Billionaires — To envy or raid for our benefit?
Sep 10 2010
The Trouble With Billionaires… is about the ethically challenged and politically coddled elite… an illustration of the growing heights of income disparity… the well-to-do, of various degrees, would never have had as much without the rest of us… McQuaig and Brooks contend the nation’s high flyers would still strive as hard for fun and country if governments claimed a majority interest in the portion of their income and estates they regard as excessive. Then, with the rich paying more toward public programs, Canada could become a happier place, with taller, healthier and better-educated citizens, they argue.
Tags: featured, ideology, philanthropy, tax
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Canada dares not fall behind in cutting corporate taxes
May 29 2010
… without reducing the federal corporate rate a further 3 percentage points, Canada would lose 233,000 jobs and $47 billion in capital investments. “Abandonment of Canada’s tax competitiveness strategy (would) leave the country with a corporate income tax rate of 29 per cent, considerably higher than the average of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and many emerging economies.”
Tags: globalization, tax
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Parliament to vote on securing pensions at failing companies
May 25, 2010
Politicians of all federal parties are being pressed to vote Wednesday to raise the security of vulnerable pension plans. Pensioners are urging them to support a bill from a Thunder Bay New Democrat that would bring Canada’s bankruptcy law up to the standard in most other developed nations… The bill would give pension promises equal standing with secured loans when companies restructure under bankruptcy protection, or go out of business.
Tags: pensions, standard of living
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You could soon be paying more for drugs
May 18 2010
Ontario has moved to force down generic drug prices, while leaving pharmacies to recover lost revenue elsewhere. That could leave consumers and sponsors of private drug plans paying more for dispensing fees, patented drugs and other services. Meanwhile, another shoe is about to drop that could further exaggerate differences in prices and fees depending on who is paying. A coalition is forming so sponsors of private drug plans can better use their buying power to negotiate lower prices, and also to save money through better management of drug use by employees.
Tags: pharmaceutical
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