tax reform

While officials say they’re streamlining the country’s notoriously complex tax system, some say a high VAT will hurt low-income households.

With light at the end of the pandemic tunnel in sight, now’s the time for a “big bang” in corporate tax reform, says Jack Mintz, one of Canada’s foremost tax and public policy experts.

As anticipation builds ahead of the throne speech on Sept. 23, a big engine of the Canadian economy—small business—wants to see the government focused on broad-based economic recovery, not new spending unrelated to thwarting COVID-19