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Entries Tagged as 'Fraser Institute'

Have taxes changed all that much over the past half century?

April 20th, 2010 · · 4 Comments · Taxes

Yesterday, the Fraser Institute released its Consumer Tax Index report, which claims to show that the average Canadian family’s tax bill has increased by a whopping 1,624% since 1961. There are a lot of things wrong with Fraser Institute’s math. Here are just a few of them. To begin with, the numbers should have been [...]

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It’s not just about size: what makes up our tax bill matters

April 20th, 2010 · · Comments Off · Poverty, inequality & welfare, Taxes, Transparency & accountability

The Fraser Institute and the CCPA do not typically see eye to eye, but they seem to agree that personal income taxes take up a relatively small fraction of the average tax bill — about 13 – 14%. According to the Fraser Institute’s recent report on the average Canadian family’s tax bill, the average family [...]

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Are Canadians paying too much in taxes?

April 20th, 2010 · · Comments Off · Taxes

It’s tax season and people are looking more closely at their incomes and the amount of taxes they pay. The Fraser Institute released their annual Consumer Tax Index report yesterday, claiming that the total tax bill of the average Canadian family now takes up 41.7% of their income. This seems like a big number, which [...]

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The role of stimulus spending in the recovery

March 24th, 2010 · · 1 Comment · Economy, Provincial budget & finance, Transparency & accountability

Yesterday, the Fraser Institute published a new report, which argues that the government stimulus did not drive Canadian economic growth in the last two quarters of 2009, suggesting that government spending on infrastructure was useless for the economy. The report earned the scorn of Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who called it ”poorly done and it’s [...]

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