Inevitably when the price of gas rises, drivers cry foul and the call comes to governments to alleviate the pain, in the form of reducing taxes on gas. However, the idea that governments should lower taxes on gas in response to globally increasing demand outstripping an increasingly unstable supply is a misguided approach that treats […]
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Pressure to decrease gas taxes is misguided
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Category: Taxation
Tags: consumption tax, diesel, gas tax, government, hybrid, TDI, Volkswagen
GST cut">Keep the income tax cuts, ditch the GST cut
April 6th, 2006 · 2 Comments
I read in the Star yesterday that the income tax cuts enacted by the Liberals before their fall from power and effective January 1, 2006 may be kept by the Conservative government, which has all along threatened to reinstate them to make room for their GST cut. I have always been in favor of income tax […]
Category: Taxation
Tags: Canada, consumption tax, government, GST, income tax, policy, progressive, regressive, saving, spending, tax
