The Tax Foundation’s Ten principles of sound tax policy are a must-read for those influ­encing tax policy. I think the list can be further refined down to about half that, but maybe they wanted to get an even ten. For instance, maintaining the neutrality of the system (#2) will result in broad bases (#3). It’s when […]

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An agreement reached between the Canadian Federal government and the provincial Ontario government will simplify corporate taxes by 2009. The Ontario tax return, known as the CT23, will be amalga­mated with the Federal return. Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara had this on the much-lauded move: “Businesses have been asking us to reduce admin­is­trative overlap and […]

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Sometimes when I’m looking for inspi­ration for a blog post I’ll scan the news sites for mentions of accounting, in the hopes that there’ll be some new devel­opment I can write about. Unfor­tu­nately, in accounting, new devel­op­ments aren’t frequent and usually are pretty boring. It’s the nature of the beast. So when I found this story […]

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David Dodge, the governor of the Bank of Canada and the current architect of our monetary policy, suggested the province of Ontario should revamp the provincial sales tax (PST) to more closely resemble the value-added federal GST in a rare appearance before the Commons industry committee. The suggestion is a solid one, as it would […]

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I have been playing around with Windows Live Local lately, Microsoft’s compe­tition for Google Maps. I decided to map all the clients where I’ve been in the last year with my firm. For the blue ones I just had to search for the business name, but the red ones represent clients that I had to […]

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