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1. If Shakespeare were writing today—‘let's kill all the (tax) lawyers’

   There was a lovely press release this week from Aaron Wudrick of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation warning us all that if we wanted to read the Income Tax Act before next week’s April 30 filing deadline, we’d better get started. And we’d ...

2. Reforming Federal Personal Income Taxes: A Pro-Growth Plan for Canada

   After seven years of consecutive budgetary deficits, the federal government appears poised to balance its budget in 2015 and has signalled that its top, post-deficit priority is “examining ways to provide further tax relief for Canadians.” Reductions in ...

3. Income splitting not the best economic bang for the buck

     After seven consecutive years of budget deficits, the federal government is finally set to balance the budget. While the government has long expressed that tax relief is its top post-deficit priority, the major question has always been: what form will ...

4. Forget income-splitting; cut tax rates

   Appeared in the Financial Post On Wednesday, the day after delivering the 2014 federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty set off a firestorm by offering his view on income-splitting, a platform commitment the Conservatives made for when the government ...

5. The Economic Costs of Increased Marginal Tax Rates in Canada

   Economists often focus on marginal tax rates (the extra tax an individual (or firm) will owe to the government for engaging in a little more of the taxed activity) as particularly important for altering economic behaviour. The marginal tax rate is ...