Four provinces have increased their general corporate tax rates over the last three years, including B.C. and Alberta.
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February 26, 2018
2:27PM
April 22, 2016
12:00PM
This year’s deficit is projected at $1.8 billion, equivalent to 6.2 per cent of the provincial economy.
June 5, 2015
9:00AM
The Ontario government has never made a secret of its desire to have the federal government help fund Ontario’s provincial budget. It even started its own think-tank with $5 million in 2009, which regularly publishes reports that call on the federal government to rescue Ontario’s provincial finances.
April 25, 2015
10:00AM
Imagine you’re near what you thought was a dormant volcano but it suddenly erupts. Assuming you escape, you might later reflect that there was nothing “sudden” about it.
April 9, 2015
10:00AM
Amid a gathering fiscal storm, the Ontario government will soon table its budget for the coming fiscal year and beyond. There’s a lot riding on getting things right.
March 14, 2015
8:00AM
Over the past decade, the province of Alberta treated boom-time resource revenues like a permanent state of affairs. That set the province up for fiscal failure, for multiple lost opportunities.
March 6, 2015
4:00PM
Premier Philippe Couillard recently declared that government finances and the economy are his top priorities, stating that “the goal is clear: consolidation of public finances and economic re-launch.” This is laudable.
March 5, 2015
3:00AM
February 28, 2015
4:00PM
In the debate over whether the Alberta government should reduce and reform spending to cushion the blow from falling revenues, some claim higher taxes will balance the books.