Information on the rates of return and effective rates of taxation from capital in the private sectors of an economy are prerequisites for both rational public sector project evaluations and for measurement of the degree of equity and excess burden credited by the economy’s taxation system. In...

I see my function at this Conference as giving some background as to why the Department of Finance Tax Policy Group, and also the political decision-makers, ended up considering the BTT as an option for replacement of the Manufacture's Sales Tax (MST). There is one facile answer to that...

Among industrialized countries, Canada is the last nation still using a manufacturers’ sales tax, although at least nine other countries have used tax intermittently since 1923. When it was introduced 61 years ago it was considered a controversial tax. Many of the complaints at that time have...

Despite the diverse and developed nature of twentieth century U.S. and Canadian financial markets, the history of both economies is replete with claims of inefficiency and inadequacy among financial intermediaries, particularly the banking sectors. In Canada it has been argued that banks were...