Day 16 – Frontier’s Advent Calendar

Day 16 – Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we […]
Published on December 16, 2017

Day 16 – Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree.

 

On Day 16 we wish for a single income tax rate which would vastly simplify our unnecessarily Kafkaesque, complicated tax system Yes, a tax return on a postcard is possible.

Suggested Readings:

Five Thoughts on the Single Rate Income Tax

Tax Breaks Don’t Help First Nations

Hong Kong’s Simple, Low Taxes: Don’t We All Want It?

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