Conservative income splitting plan is tax gift for wealthiest families: study

Published January 28, 2014

The Conservative government’s plan to extend income splitting to families is skewed heavily in favour of the wealthiest, with the vast majority of families receiving no benefit at all, a new study has found. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives analysed the Conservative plan to allow parents with children under 18 to split up to […]

Who represents Canada at the wealth inequality Olympics?

Published January 21, 2014

Canada’s richest family, worth more than $20 billion thanks to inheritance and media holdings, are members of Club 85: the richest 85 people on the globe who own the wealth of half of the world’s population. Oxfam International’s inequality index lays out how we got to a point where 85 families, including Canada’s David Thomson and family, control as much […]

A kinder, gentler Canada? Myth busted in one graph

Published November 27, 2013

Canada’s inequality problem is often overshadowed by the extreme situation in the United States. The graph below, courtesy of Mother Jones, shows why: the U.S does the least of the advanced industrialized countries to combat inequality through government taxes and transfers. The bad news? When it comes to reducing income inequality, Canada languishes at the bottom […]

Are Conservatives using tax policy to push for traditional families?

Published November 12, 2013

The Conservatives laid the groundwork on Tuesday to extend income splitting for married and common-law couples, with confirmation in the economic and fiscal update that a balanced budget is coming in 2015. During the 2011 election, Stephen Harper pledged that once the federal budget was balanced, parents with children under 18 would be allowed to split up […]

Conservatives call for “less progressive” tax system

Published October 28, 2013

Conservatives from a riding in Calgary, the host city for the party’s convention kicking off on October 31, want to see a “less progressive” tax system. They’d do this by “reducing the number of personal income tax brackets.” A less progressive tax system means more tax cuts for the rich and less tax revenue overall […]

Tag: tax policy

Conservative income splitting plan is tax gift for wealthiest families: study

Who represents Canada at the wealth inequality Olympics?

A kinder, gentler Canada? Myth busted in one graph

Are Conservatives using tax policy to push for traditional families?

Conservatives call for “less progressive” tax system