Reports in advance of Ottawa’s federal fiscal update suggest the deficit may reach $34 billion.
Government Spending & Taxes
October 27, 2016
8:25AM
Ontario had to write-off $1 billion of taxpayer money from the General Motors/Chrysler bailout.
October 26, 2016
12:11PM
Amazingly, the federal government offers no cost estimates of more than 90 tax expenditures.
October 25, 2016
3:20AM
If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.
October 21, 2016
9:46AM
On total social spending, where do Canada and the U.S. rank?
October 21, 2016
3:53AM
Tax changes struck a major blow to the province’s business climate.
October 20, 2016
8:39AM
Canada’s top personal income tax rate is among the highest in the developed world.
October 19, 2016
3:10AM
One of the justifications for the rising rates is to promote environmental responsibility and water conservation.
October 17, 2016
12:54PM
Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.
October 6, 2016
2:07PM
Ontario’s top combined federal and provincial personal income tax rate is 53.5 per cent for skilled workers.
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