Lindsay Tedds

Lindsay Tedds is an economics professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her primary research and teaching area is applied economic research and policy analysis, with a particular focus on tax policy and compliance.

Economic analysis

The winners and losers if Alberta returns to a flat tax system

Lindsay Tedds: As the province debates the merits of a less progressive tax system, voters will have to make tradeoffs that help and punish different income earners

Economic analysis

The unintended consequences of boosting parental leave

Changing EI parental leave provisions may change the season of births in Canada and the distribution of health, education, and development outcomes

Rachel Notley, Brian Mason, Kathleen Ganley

Economic analysis

How Alberta’s public sector salary disclosure could backfire

Knowing what everyone else in the public sector is earning is invaluable when bargaining for pay increases and starting salaries

Economic analysis

The good news—but missed opportunity—in Harper’s RESP pledge

When it comes to boosting the use of RESPs, the question of how many people participate is as important as how much those who participate contribute

Economic analysis

Why the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit is such a bad idea

With taxpayers worried about government spending, we should demand better than the renewal of a credit that represents a wasteful use of tax revenues

Economic analysis

The real problem with all that tax debt Canadians owe

We shouldn’t be surprised that the Canada Revenue Agency just wrote off billions in tax debt, but the government can and should fix the problem

Economic analysis

Why shaming Alberta’s securities deadbeats may not work

The tactic of naming and shaming is about nothing more than optics, with little impact on securities regulation compliance or collections