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  1. A tale of two cities—Vancouver spends far more than Surrey

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, August 23, 2018 With three levels of government delivering a wide array of services to British Columbians, paid for by an equally wide array of taxes, fees and transfers, it can be difficult for citizens to understand ...

  2. Comparing Municipal Government Finances in Metro Vancouver, 2018 Edition

    Municipal governments play an important role in the lives of British Columbians by providing important services and collecting taxes. But municipal finances do not receive the same degree of public scrutiny as the finances of senior governments. This can ...

  3. Doug Ford’s next big federal tax challenge—opt out of CPP expansion

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, August 15, 2018 In one of his first orders of business after becoming premier of Ontario, Doug Ford quickly moved to scrap the previous government’s cap-and-trade program. While it’s not yet clear what (if anything) will ...

  4. Restraining government employee compensation would help repair Alberta finances

    Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, August 14, 2018 Alberta’s public finances are in rough shape. The Notley government expects to run another budget deficit this year (estimated at $8.8 billion) and has no plan to balance the books until at least 2023/24. ...

  5. The average Canadian family spends more than $37,000 per year on taxes

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 14, 2018 Have you ever wondered what the most expensive annual budget item is for the average Canadian family? If housing is the first thing that comes to mind, then you’d be surprised to find out you’re wrong. In ...

  6. Average workers will ultimately pay for Horgan government's new payroll tax

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, August 8, 2018 In a recent news release, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James called Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums “unfair” and argued her government’s new replacement Employer Health Tax (EHT) is a “much fairer and ...

  7. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2018 Edition

    The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2017. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,112% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

  8. BC is returning to its big spending ways of the 1990s

    During the 1990s, British Columbia’s economy generally suffered from lacklustre growth and poor fiscal performance. To bring the extent of BC’s fiscal and economic weakness into focus, consider that the 1990s have been referred to as the ...

  9. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Alberta, 2018

    Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2017, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Alberta. It also evaluates four non-wage benefits for which data are available to ...

  10. 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 ...