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Ottawa to step up efforts on tax cheats in bid to collect $2.6 billion in back taxes
… the new Liberal government said it will provide $444.4 million to the Canada Revenue Agency over the next five years so it can crack down on tax evasion and combat tax avoidance. The government says it expects these efforts to result in the collection of $2.6 billion in back taxes over the next five years. The crackdown will extend to what the federal government describes as “aggressive tax planning.”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, tax
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Alternative Federal Budget 2016: Time To Move On
Time To Move On proves that we can fight climate change and create jobs at the same time, that we can reduce poverty and grow the economy responsibly, and that there is more than enough fiscal room to ensure that everyone can have a better future… This year’s AFB delivers a plan that would lift 1.1 million Canadians out of poverty, reduce income inequality, boost economic growth, and, at its peak, result in 520,000 new jobs, bringing Canada’s unemployment rate to 6.0%.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Canada Revenue targeted progressive non-profits while wealthy tax dodgers get free pass
Tax evasion by the rich, with fewer investigators to stop it. What could possibly go wrong? We aren’t talking chicken-feed here, either: an estimated $170 billion has been squirrelled away offshore. That’s a heck of a lot of tax avoidance, to put it mildly. A lot of missing revenue that could be put to good use on behalf of ordinary Canadians… now that the CRA rock has been turned over. This had better not be the final chapter.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Ban corporate and union political donations in Ontario
… selling political access to a few movers and shakers who can afford it isn’t a hallmark of democracy. Ontario should take a lesson from other jurisdictions and end corporate and union contributions… It’s vital for public decisions to be made “in the public interest, not in the interests of a few well-financed political supporters.” That quote is from an Ontario Liberal campaign document dating from 2003, when the party pledged to take steps to limit the pull of money in politics.
Tags: ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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How Canada got a step closer to taming its big fiscal beast
For years now, the government has been drifting toward the use of tax expenditure as a means of policy, and we have lacked the tools to analyze what’s happening. Colloquially known as boutique tax breaks, benefits, or loopholes… Measures such as these are thought to incentivize desired behaviours through targeted tax relief. It sounds simple, almost like a tax cut. But, in fact, these budgetary boogeymen are subsidies to the select few…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, tax
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Taxes: the third rail of Canadian politics
… three ways the Liberal government could start: Close tax loopholes. Canada’s 3,200-page income tax is riddled with deductions, exemptions, credits targeted at specific sectors of the population… Make the tax system more progressive. Brian Mulroney reduced Canada’s 10 tax brackets – which ranged from 6 per cent at the bottom to 34 per at the top – to three brackets… Extend this year’s middle-class tax cut to those with incomes below $45,000.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Compassionate conservatism for the 21st century
Reform conservatism seeks to address the challenges posed by the transformation — or, more dramatically, the disappearance — of the blue collar economy, in which high wages were widely available for low-skilled labour. Coupled with a decline in the social architecture available at lower socio-economic levels — where the non-formation of families is most acute — it has created major instability for a constituency that responds to the demagoguery of The Donald.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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At some point, there is such a thing as too much transparency
… the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments of Canada could publish detailed information on how individuals, businesses, and organizations interact with their programs and services. To improve health-care spending and reduce wait times, provincial governments could publish how often individuals or households visit a medical facility each year… [or] the names and/or street addresses of people on social assistance and the amount of support they receive each year from the government.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights
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Ontario’s early bird budget didn’t get the worm
… the lion’s share of this government’s deficit reduction activities has come at the expense of expanding program spending to improve public services… This budget allocates a 1.5 per cent increase to social assistance benefit rates, including a further increase for single OW recipients… Ontarians who have been living in poverty have been waiting 12 years… for a return to more adequate social assistance incomes. This year’s increases are too little, too late.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario budget 2016: Everything you need to know in graphics
The Liberal government says it’s on track to eliminate a $5.7-billion deficit in the next budget largely thanks to managing program spending and fighting the underground economy, but it is hesitant to acknowledge that the partial privatization of Hydro One and a new carbon pricing system are major factors contributing to that goal. Here’s everything you need to know about the budget, in graphics
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