Capital gains taxes reduce the return entrepreneurs and investors receive when selling a new technology or business.
Government Spending & Taxes
May 28, 2018
1:26PM
May 25, 2018
2:22PM
When taxes on investment returns are very high, the negative consequences, compounded over time, can be dramatic.
May 22, 2018
2:59PM
Pipeline expansion project may generate $50 billion in government revenue over 20 years.
May 18, 2018
3:14PM
The theoretical or “ideal” carbon-pricing system has never been implemented.
May 16, 2018
2:20PM
Kinder Morgan stopped all “non-essential spending” on the $7.4 billion project due to regulatory, legal and political barriers.
May 11, 2018
2:46PM
The decline in foreign direct investment since 2007 totals an almost unimaginable 74.9 per cent.
May 11, 2018
10:04AM
If firms don’t collude, and there are lots of them around, wages will rise until they’re equal to worker productivity.
May 10, 2018
5:00AM
The Ontario government plans to spend more than $190 billion on public infrastructure.
May 7, 2018
4:14PM
The PBO projects a cumulative federal deficit of $85.6 billion over the next five years.
May 4, 2018
10:26AM
Private-sector investment is slated to fall again this year—the fourth consecutive annual decline.
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