Professor David Henderson tells the story of Canada’s triumph over budget deficits in the 1990s, and explains that even severe deficit problems can be resolved through real cuts to government spending and without major tax increases.
Taxation
Effect of Reducing the HST Tax Rate by Two Percentage Points on Average Households: The Case for Ontario and British Columbia
This study measures the effect of moving from the old provincial sales tax (PST) to the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and in British Columbia, assuming that the sales tax rates are reduced.
Birth of a Boom: Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age: by Frontier’s David Seymour
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Media Release – Reducing the HST Tax Rate for Ontario and British Columbia: It Benefits Families and Increases Voter Support
This study measures the effect of moving from the old provincial sales tax (PST) to the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and in British Columbia, assuming that the sales tax rates are reduced.
Featured News
To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
How Would You Spend $1 billion?
The Frontier Centre releases an “alternate choices” list for the cost of burying Saskatchewan’s carbon emissions
Will New Brunswick Dare To Pull Out All The Stops?
New Brunswick’s strategic objectives in its tax-reform exercise are impeccable. It seeks to achieve “self-sufficiency” – independence from federal equalization payments – by 2026. The corporate tax reform cited here is one of the more radical options presented in the New Brunswick discussion paper. But it doesn’t go quite far enough. New Brunswick needs a corporate tax rate that will reverberate across the country and around the world.
Tax Freeze Comes with a Cost
Officials in Winnipeg and other cities have discovered that keeping a lid on property taxes while hiking user fees can boost city coffers without inciting public riots.
On Amending the Balanced Budget Law – Bill 38
Testimony of Peter Holle, President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy to the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs, Manitoba Legislature.
June 5, 2008 (From Hansard)
Municipal Salary and Benefit Expense
This Frontier Charticle presents the percentage of expenditure that was declared as Salaries and Benefits in the Expenditure by Object sections of the municipalities’ 2005 financial statements. FC043
War And Taxes
Death and taxes — more specifically, war and taxes — are often linked. The first recorded tax began six thousand years ago on a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (now part of modern Iraq). Inscriptions on clay stones excavated at Lagash revealed not only the existence of a tax but why: to pay for a ferocious war.
Prairie Provinces Need a Fiscal Constitution to Control Spending
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a report calling for a new arrangement - a Fiscal Constitution - between governments and their citizens that would change the rules of politics toward politicians emphasizing value for money instead of expenditure...
Sir Roger Douglas Hard Right? No, They’re Hard Left
One expects NZ Prime Minister Clark or Finance Minister Cullen to describe conventional economic thinking as irrelevant “hard right” ideology. ACT’s policy has always been designed to ensure that disadvantaged people have the same opportunity, security and dignity as more affluent people do.
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change sprung out of a meeting of hundreds of scientists and climate experts from the International Conference on Climate Change, New York City, signed March 4th, 2008.