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1. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 9, 2014

   The Fraser Institute annually calculates Tax Freedom Day in order to provide a comprehensive and easily understood indicator of the overall tax burden faced by the average Canadian family. Tax Freedom Day is the day in the year by which the average ...

2. Will governments back off their taxing trend in 2014?

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph and Trail Daily Times A new year can bring new possibilities. It’s a chance to take stock of what we’ve accomplished in the past year and to set new goals for the future. It’s also, however, when Canadian ...

3. PST hike means higher taxes and lower prosperity for Manitoba families

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press When Manitoba’s NDP government delivered its budget back in April, Finance Minister Stan Struthers ruffled some feathers with his announcement of an increase in the provincial sales tax (PST) to eight per cent from ...

4. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10, 2013

   The Fraser Institute annually calculates Tax Freedom Day in order to provide a comprehensive and easily understood indicator of the overall tax burden faced by the average Canadian family. In 2013, Tax Freedom Day fell on June 10, two days later than 2012 ...

5. June 11 is Tax Freedom Day: let's celebrate...or should we?

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Winnipeg Sun, Edmonton Sun, and Calgary Sun If you’ve ever tried to calculate all the taxes you pay in a year to all levels of government, you’ve probably given up somewhere along the way. While most of us can ...

6. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 11, 2012

   In 2012, Canadians celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 11. That is, Canadians will have worked until June 10 to pay the total tax bill imposed on them by all levels of government. On Tax Freedom Day, the average Canadian family has earned enough money to ...

7. The Tories' high-tax plan

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Monday’s federal budget was all political spin. Like in March, when the 2011 budget was first introduced, the Conservatives dubiously titled it: A Low-Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth. But in reality, the Conservatives’ ...

8. A vote for the HST is a vote for an earlier Tax Freedom Day

   Appeared in vancouversun.com Happy Tax Freedom Day! Monday, British Columbians start working for themselves.  In other words, if we had to pay all our taxes up front, we would have to pay each and every dollar we earned from January 1 to June 5 to various ...

9. The Impact of the HST on British Columbian Families

   This Alert provides an empirical measurement of the impact of the HST on the average British Columbian family. The Fraser Institute is well suited to provide such an analysis; it has a long history of measuring how much tax, in all forms, British ...