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1. Window may be opening for tax reform in Quebec

   Appeared in the Montreal Gazette “We want Quebecers to pay less tax and taxes,” said Quebec’s premier Philippe Couillard, in advance of recommendations from a special panel tasked to make the province’s tax system more competitive. The window for change ...

2. Quebec’s Tax Competitiveness: A Barrier to Prosperity

   Empirical research and history provide evidence that high marginal tax rates and uncompetitive tax policies can hurt a jurisdiction’s economic performance. This is because individuals and businesses respond by working, saving, and investing less, and by ...

3. Debt interest risks crowding out government spending on other priorities

   Appeared in the Regina Leader Post and Huffington Post, Aug 25, 2014 Canadian headlines about government deficits and debt can be dizzying and hard for people to grasp. A few billion here and several billion there and the natural response is for one’s ...

4. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada

   A major theme of this year’s federal and various provincial budgets is continuing deficit spending and growing government debt. The result of recent deficits and debt accumulation is that the combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from ...

5. Your family’s largest expense may surprise you

   Appeared in the Regina Leader Post, Kelowna Daily Courier, and Windsor Star If you asked average Canadian families what their largest expense is, many would probably say housing. And you can’t blame them. Mortgage and rental payments are a painful monthly ...

6. Complying with personal income taxes takes chunk out of household budgets

   the New Glasgow News Brooks Weekend Regional The end of April is traditionally the tax filing deadline, and a time when Canadians are frantically organizing their receipts and other documents from the past year to complete their ‎personal income tax ...

7. Train wreck of a budget pushes Ontario further in the wrong direction

     With Ontario lagging behind other provinces on a wide range of economic indicators and recently becoming a "have-not" province, it desperately needed a bold plan to improve competitiveness and foster economic growth. Unfortunately, Thursday& ...

8. Cost to Canadians of Complying with Personal Income Taxes, 2014

   This study builds on previous Fraser Institute research estimating the total compliance costs associated with Canada's tax system. It aims to estimate the cost of complying with the personal income tax system in 2012. It updates past estimates for ...

9. Bad news out of Ontario illustrates need for a better fiscal plan

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun and Ottawa Sun The economic news coming out of Ontario in recent days has been far from positive. The province's economic and fiscal position is weak and new analysis released by the Ministry of Finance suggests its ...

10. Comparing the Debt Burdens of Ontario and California

    To many in the United States and Canada, California represents the epitome of irresponsible government spending coupled with poor cash management. However, the province of Ontario is carrying a much worse debt burden than the state of California. This ...