Tag: tax cuts

Federal Liberals’ ‘Middle-Class Tax Cut’ Overwhelmingly Benefits The Well-Off, Yet Again

Published October 30, 2019 Analysis

We've seen this movie before

The Liberals and Conservatives Both Say Their Tax Cuts Help Low-Income Canadians. Both Claims are Misleading.

Published September 25, 2019 Fact-Check

Trudeau and Scheer are both promising to waste billions on expensive, ineffective tax giveaways that won’t help Canadians that need it most

Biggest Benefits From Andrew Scheer’s So-Called Tax Cut For ‘Lowest-Income’ Canadians Would Go To The Rich

Published September 16, 2019 Fact-Check

Lowest-income Canadians will see ‘basically no benefit’, economists say

Conservatives try to defend TFSA tax breaks for the rich

Published February 24, 2015

Finance Minister Joe Oliver must have felt like he was seeing double on Tuesday. New reports from both the Broadbent Institute and the Parliamentary Budget Officer criticized the Conservatives plan to expand the Tax-Free Savings Accounts program — both for lost revenues and for disproportionately benefitting the wealthiest Canadians. The Broadbent Institute report, written by Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, one […]

Stephen Harper will blow $43 billion this year on tax giveaways

Published May 27, 2014

The Conservative anti-tax brigade is spending $43 billion on tax giveaways this year, a new report estimates. A Parliamentary Budget Office report released Tuesday examined changes to Canada’s tax system between 2005 and 2013 for personal incomes taxes and the GST/HST. It found that the accumulation of cuts since 2005 will reduce federal personal income […]

3 Tim Hudak corporate tax myths busted and given a beat down

Published May 23, 2014

Updated May 24, 2014 Tim Hudak’s gone full throttle waging war against corporate taxes, laying out a plan that would make Ontario’s corporate tax rate the lowest in Canada. Except there’s very little evidence this plan will do anything for anyone in Ontario, unless they happen to work on Bay Street. Here’s a busting of […]

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