Halifax – For 10 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Nova Scotia has published alternative budgets that challenge Nova Scotians to consider the best use of limited government resources. Striking a Healthy Balance: Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2011 offers ways to redirect resources, such as the $84 million spent to rebate the provincial portion of the HST on oil and electricity bills.
Taxes and tax cuts
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OTTAWA—Today’s federal budget looks more like an attempt to stay in power than a fiscal remedy for the real problems facing Canadians, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), an independent think tank.
The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of the federal government's plan to balance the books.
When it comes to good urban planning, transportation and taking action on climate change, Europe has a lot to teach us.
BC took important baby steps with its Climate Action Plan of 2008. Three years later, however, baby is still clinging to the coffee table.
The centrepiece of BC's plan was the introduction of North America's first carbon tax, which makes it more expensive to use fossil fuels. Now it’s time to scale up the carbon tax and make it an engine for transformative change. But before we do that, we need to fix the tax so it is more effective and fair.
Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
(Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Sierra Club BC calls on the provincial government to scale up BC's carbon tax, and makes a number of recommendations to make the tax more effective and fair.
The Irish people go to the polls on February 25. The governing Fianna Fail party—that created the fallen Celtic Tiger economic model and is now the object of widespread public outrage—will almost certainly be banished to political wilderness, much like the conservative regime casualties of economic crisis in Greece and Iceland.
The Celtic Tiger went from boom to bust with breathtaking speed. In the wake of (in part because of) four austerity budgets—seen as the toughest in Europe—Ireland is locked in depression with ten successive quarters of economic contraction.
Recent reports that federal funding for four anti-gang programs in Winnipeg will end in March raise the issue, yet again, of how our tax dollars are being spent. While concerns about street gangs, crime, and violence in Winnipeg’s inner-city continue to mount, the response of the Harper government is taking us in the wrong direction. Rather than building more prisons, we need to support the important work that is ongoing in these communities to address the root causes of these problems.
In today’s globalized world, tax evasion is occurring on a massive scale. As corporations and wealthy individuals shift their assets into offshore tax havens, the annual loss in global tax revenues is more than $500 billion.