Department of Finance

Will Bill Morneau’s crackdown on tax avoidance work?

The measures will likely make it harder for high-earning Canadians to avoid the taxman, but the government could have gone further

Boosting the CPP would ‘bring economic benefits’

Documents hint at how, inside Finance, the prospect of raising CPP premiums to pay for enriched benefits isn’t viewed so negatively

There is an iPod tax after all

A CBSA lawyer warned the government was ‘perpetuating a fraud’ with its denial

The return of the federal structural deficit?

Even the Department of Finance’s own figures suggest the red ink is here to stay

Stephen Gordon’s mission statement

The ULaval economist is joining Econowatch. Welcome to a whole new conversation.

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Kevin Page: the unlikely enforcer

Meet the PM’s nemesis