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1. Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship

   Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship, a chapter in the recently released book Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population, finds that the preferential tax rate for small businesses does not encourage ...

2. Higher top personal income tax rates discourage entrepreneurship in Canada

   Entrepreneurship plays an essential role in fostering a strong economy for Canada. Entrepreneurs innovate, bringing opportunities and benefits to Canadians. So it’s concerning that the rate of entrepreneurship in Canada has steadily ...

3. Ontario can spur entrepreneurship by cutting personal income taxes

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, July 10, 2018 Entrepreneurship remains a vital source of innovation, which helps grow economies and provide employment opportunities for Ontarians. Unfortunately, several recent studies have found fewer businesses are being ...

4. B.C. can spur entrepreneurship by cutting personal income taxes

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, July 10, 2018 Entrepreneurship remains a vital source of innovation, which helps grow economies and provide employment opportunities for British Columbians. Unfortunately, several recent studies have found fewer businesses ...

5. Alberta can spur entrepreneurship by cutting personal income taxes

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, July 10, 2018 Entrepreneurship remains a vital source of innovation, which helps grow economies and provide employment opportunities for Albertans. Unfortunately, several recent studies have found fewer businesses are being ...

6. Memo to Doug Ford—Ontario desperately needs personal income tax reform

   Due to last week’s election victory, Doug Ford is Ontario’s premier-designate. However, now comes the difficult task of governing. While there’s no shortage of pressing policy issues for the province, tax relief should be top of mind ...

7. Demographics and Entrepreneurship blog series: Spurring entrepreneurship through capital gains tax reform

   As part of the blog series summarizing the Fraser Institute’s Demographics and Entrepreneurship essays, this post examines the effect of capital gains tax reform on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is critical for economies to grow, ...

8. Case for corporate tax cuts in Ontario strong—whether or not Trump makes the first move

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 24, 2017 According to Brad Duguid, Ontario’s minister of economic development, the Wynne government is keeping a close watch on President Trump’s proposed cut to the U.S. corporate income tax rate. Duguid suggested his ...

9. Innovators needed for an innovative Canada

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, March 29, 2017 One of the pillars of the federal government’s laudable focus on improving the economy, particularly for middle-class Canadians, is an emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship. Indeed, it ...

10. Upper-earners in Canada already pay a disproportionate share of taxes

    Fresh off his Christmas vacation on a private island in the Bahamas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embarked on a cross country tour, signalling that there may be further tax hikes on “wealthy” Canadians in the upcoming federal budget. In ...