- Behind the Numbers
A blog from the CCPA
Resource Type: Website
Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment.
- Bennett Jones LLP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canada's Austerity Agenda: It's About the Taxes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Austerity policies pose major threats to the public's health. Ronald Labonté argues that the austerity agenda in Canada stems not from a crisis in finances, but from a crisis in fair taxation.
- The Check-the-Box Loophole
The Great Corporate Tax Shift
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
- Doctors and Lawyers to Duncan: Tax us. Ontario is worth it.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Doctors and lawyers join forces to object to Ontario's budget.
- The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- Give Us Our Money Back!
How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
- A Good Society Has its Price
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Canadian lawyers say tax us instead of creating greater inequity.
- The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
- IFIC Requests Changes to Proposed FATCA Regulations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has responded to a request for submissions by the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the proposed regulations relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
- Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
- Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
- Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
- KPMG Management Services LP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
NDP leader Davis Lewis provides facts and analysis to support his charge that "government and big business are holding hands -- in your pocket."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- The Price We Pay
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
- Progressive Frames for Taxes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
- The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- Soberman LLP, Chartered Accountants
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources welcomes Canadian Tax Foundation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Tax Foundation, a national non-profit tax research organization which provides a forum for discussion on personal, corporate, international taxation and sales taxation.
- Talking Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
- Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
- Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
- Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
- A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
- We Can Save Social Programs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
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