Government Spending & Taxes
The Institute recently released a study that calculated rates of return (nominal and real) received by Canadian retirees from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
In the 12 years following 2001, there were almost two new tax expenditures per year.
Alberta projects a budget deficit of $28.9 billion over the next three years.
Personal income tax rates are being hiked across the board, between one and three percentage points depending on income.
Manitoba’s newly-elected government faces some important fiscal challenges.
While it might not appear so, a higher minimum wage is effectively a tax.
Canada's new top federal tax rate of 33 per cent is being layered on top of several tax increases by the provinces.
There are 175 collective bargaining agreements with public-sector employees coming up for negotiation in the near future.
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