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  1. Bad news budget dims New Brunswick's economic prospects

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal Last week’s provincial budget was a heap of bad news for New Brunswickers. First they learned that they will continue to be burdened by a government with shaky finances driven by annual deficits and ...

  2. The tax credit snowball; More people don't have any skin in the game- they don't pay taxes

    Appeared in the Financial Post With economic growth slowing and a goal of balancing the budget by 2015, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will have little fiscal room for major new initiatives in Thursday's federal budget. The risk is that the ...

  3. Tax Payers and Tax Takers

    The traditional definition of tax progressivity is being rewritten and this change could have serious ramifications for democratic decision-making. Up to now, tax progressivity has meant that, as an individual or household earned more income, they not ...

  4. Opportunities for Canada from the New American Government

    Appeared in iPolitics The uncertainty that continues to impede the U.S. recovery coupled with political gridlock in Washington poses significant economic threats to not only the United States but also countries like Canada that trade with the U.S. However ...

  5. Submission to British Columbia's Expert Panel on Business Taxation

    Tax rates affect peoples behavior. High taxes contribute to lower rates of economic growth, reduced rates of personal income growth, lower rates of capital formation, and reduced entrepreneurship. Provinces and countries are constantly competing for ...

  6. Quebec families pay too much in taxes

    Appeared in the Montreal Gazette Shortly before unveiling the provincial budget in March, Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand told reporters that the average family pays enough taxes in Quebec. We couldn’t agree more. This year Quebecers have to wait ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. More initiatives needed to strengthen BC's investment climate

    Appeared in Business in Vancouver The 1990s was an economically dismal decade for British Columbia. The province effectively missed the prosperity party enjoyed by the rest of Canada due largely to poor economic policies. As a result, the province ...

  9. Mitigating the crushing blow to BC's competitiveness

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun With the defeat of the harmonized sales tax (HST), B.C.’s competitiveness will suffer a crushing blow, as the province experiences a rebirth of the provincial sales tax (PST). The unfortunate reality is that restoring the PST ...

  10. Prefilled Personal Income Tax Returns

    The genesis of this set of five papers on prefilled (or pre-populated) personal income tax returns was the observation that the Québec government had initiated in December 2007 a prefilled personal income tax program. A target group of 100,000 tax filers, ...