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
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Department of Finance
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
The Finance Dept. finally agrees with the PBO: it’s a structural deficit
It wasn’t just the recession
Stephen Gordon’s mission statement
The ULaval economist is joining Econowatch. Welcome to a whole new conversation.
Kevin Page: the unlikely enforcer
Meet the PM’s nemesis