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Canada’s existing healthcare funding model has a fatal flaw
With no new accord, the federal government can focus more on its own pressing health delivery issues, such as improving indigenous and veterans’ health… If the federal government sticks to its guns, what now looks like a failure — the inability to reach a new accord — may, in retrospect, come to be seen as the beginning of a long overdue process of rejuvenating a health system that has not been performing very well in recent years.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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Don’t eliminate tax exemptions just to raise federal revenue
A growing number of tax carve outs has artificially created winners by bestowing privileges on a select group of taxpayers (in this case, those with employer-provided health and dental plans). Special tax preferences also increase the cost of complying with the tax system because claiming a tax benefit (credit, exemption, deduction) requires keeping records, ensuring eligibility and perhaps hiring an accountant to ensure you’re not missing out on any tax benefits.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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Our leaders need to offer Canadians a new vision for health care
Canadians want the principles of the Canada Health Act. They also want different levels of government to work together for their benefit. What Canada needs is a new, long-term vision for health care from our political leaders. We need officials back at the table working out new program designs that motivate and support change, including, but not limited to, priorities related to long-term care, mental health and prescription drugs.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Feds stand firm on health in face of provincial petty extortion
Bill Morneau is right to stand firm on his fiscal plan, given he’s already $30 billion in the red. He has a crucial budget to prepare and he needs to nail down growth in the biggest single federal expenditure — $36 billion last year… Others… have suggested Ottawa get out of the social transfer business altogether and transfer tax points such as the GST to provinces, so that if they want to offer more generous health care, they simply increase the sales tax rates within their borders.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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Change the tax laws to boost charitable giving
The federal government should start to address that shortfall in its spring budget by bringing in a straightforward measure that could increase donations to Canadian charities by some $200 million a year.
The measure involves broadening the tax exemption on capital gains for charitable donations.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, tax
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Donation Incentives: The Canadian Advantage
As of 2016, tax credits have increased with tax rates for the highest income Canadians… income of more than $200,000… with proper estate planning, a Canadian taxpayer may eliminate taxes at death by giving to charity and in most cases not disadvantage family heirs… Canadians have a rich array of donation tax incentives that together surpass other developed countries in the world, even the United States.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, philanthropy, tax
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Tuition increase at Ontario colleges and universities capped at 3%
… the government announced students whose families earn less than $50,000 will be given grants equal to or greater than the average tuition, starting next fall. Half of students whose parents earn $83,000 or less will receive more in non-repayable grants than they have to pay in tuition fees. The government is funding the changes by cancelling the tuition and education tax credits.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, tax, youth
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10 charts that defined Ontario in 2016
#1: Ontario’s Persistent Gender Pay Gap… #2: Ontario’s social assistance gap… #3: The predatory loan trap… #4: Ontario’s inadequate minimum wage… #5: Where the jobs are… #6: Housing affordability out of reach… #7: Home Sharing or Alt-Hotels? … #8: Toronto is finally talking revenue options… #9: Neglecting public services… #10: On the path to balanced budget
Tags: budget, economy, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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If fairness is the goal, Liberals should tax health and dental plans
It would, after all, tax as income a benefit that millions of Canadians are used to receiving tax-free — a break worth $2.9 billion… it probably makes sense, politically at least, for the government to use some of the revenues from ending the tax break on employer health plans to assist individuals to purchase their own. A tax preference that now mostly benefits higher-paid workers, and only in certain workplaces, could be replaced by a credit that was portable, universal, and targeted at those on lower income.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why free-marketers should support a new tax on health and dental plans — on one condition
The solution is a “tax swap,” whereby the government ceases treating workplace health and dental insurance as non-taxable and in turn uses the resulting revenues to establish a new refundable tax credit to help defray the costs of buying private insurance. The new tax credit might involve a redesign of the existing Medical Expense Tax Credit and would be available to all Canadians, irrespective of their employment circumstances, including in the form of a cash transfer for low-income citizens who don’t pay income taxes.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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