Most governments across Canada have recognized that it’s unfair to collect additional tax revenue on salary adjustments.
tax hike
July 6, 2022
3:30AM
The province's top combined personal income tax rate is 53.5 per cent, the third-highest rate among all provinces and U.S. states.
June 15, 2022
9:45AM
The government permanently increased the tax rate for banks and life insurance companies to 16.5 per cent on profits over $100 million.
October 6, 2021
5:00AM
The NDP wants to raise the top federal personal income tax rate to 35 per cent.
August 17, 2021
4:25PM
The top 20 per cent pays nearly two-thirds of all federal and provincial income taxes.
March 19, 2019
10:11AM
Kenney could have proposed pairing his 8 per cent corporate tax with an 8 per cent single-rate personal income tax.
November 15, 2017
8:23AM
In this year’s budget, the Wynne government forecasts a nearly 5 per cent increase in program spending.
October 23, 2017
2:37PM
Ottawa has exacerbated the tax-rate gap between small businesses and employees.
October 6, 2016
12:06PM
Ottawa has hiked taxes on Canada’s most skilled and educated workers.
March 25, 2015
9:00AM
Over the next two months, residents of Metro Vancouver will vote “Yes” or No” in a transit tax plebiscite, but the proposed tax hike to finance what are mostly public transit projects is at best questionable from a transportation economics perspective.