Provinces increasingly target favoured business sectors or activities for special tax treatment. Getting back on track to broad-based tax relief would make Canadians better off, without starving governments for tax revenue.

This paper assesses Ontario's fiscal climate in terms of how it impacts on the cost of doing business for multinational and entrepreneurial businesses. Unlike previous studies that only consider taxes, we include both taxes and expenditure subsidies to compare Ontario with five US states,...

The literature on privatization has overlooked how the tax status of the company to be privatized will affect the firm's, and the country', financial transition.Privatization has been a popular strategy for improving efficiency in both market and transition economies. The literature on...

Canada is losing its edge in the competition for global capital. After a decade of remarkable progress in reducing the tax burden on business investment — moving from one of the least tax-competitive jurisdictions among its industrialized peers in 2000, to ranking in the middle of the pack by...

Prince Edward Island's decision to harmonize its provincial sales tax with the federal GST next year will bring Canada's smallest province huge benefits; consumers and businesses will reap the rewards. While services will be taxed higher, the removal of PST on purchases of goods and services...