Description: The latest federal government budget has announced a new 15% tax on bank profits over $1 billion. The way the government sees it, banks have done exceptionally well during the pandemic, a time when various federal programs assisted the economy. This special Canada Recovery Dividend could raise approximately $4 billion in government revenue, and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Canadian Government
Rogers-Shaw Deal Approved
Description: Rogers Communications has received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for its $26 billion plan to purchase Shaw Communications. As part of the approval, Rogers must provide over $27 million to support specific initiatives, including support for local news. Rogers must secure separate approval from the Competition Bureau and Innovation, Science… Read more »
Not the Best Timing for Lockout
Description: CP Rail has stated that it will lockout its engineers and conductors if they cannot reach an agreement with the Teamsters Union that represents its workers. This is not good news for a supply chain already struggling to recover from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As well, the war in Ukraine has interrupted the grain supply… Read more »
Auto-file for Tax Returns?
Description: The C.D. Howe Institute released a report last week questioning the very idea that most Canadians should have to file an annual income tax return with the federal government. The report, Automatic Tax Filing: A Challenging Idea for Canada, compared our Canadian tax system to those of other OECD nations, looking at the feasibility… Read more »
Big Deficit: But Lower Than 2020’s
Description: The federal Department of Finance has reported the deficit for the first six months of this fiscal year is approximately $69 billion. Though this number is certainly high by normal standards, it is down from over $198 billion in the same six months a year ago. Big reductions in the Covid-19 relief payments such… Read more »
Payroll Burden
Description: With Canadians already facing a squeeze from rising prices, 2022 promises some additional trouble with the news that payroll burdens will rise. Both the rate and the yearly maximum contribution will be increasing for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). And while Employment Insurance (EI) rate will not jump in 2022, the overall maximum contribution… Read more »
Pay now? Pay later?
Description: You can pay me now, or pay me later; so goes the old saying from the Fram oil filter commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHug0AIhVoQ Well, the Government of Canada appears to have chosen the pay me later approach with its latest budget, delivered last week by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. The budget did contain a few revenue… Read more »
RBC – “Take it easy Government”
Description: The CEO of Royal Bank, Dave McKay, is advising the government to take it easy on more stimulus spending. Even though the Covid-19 pandemic has meant tough times for many, bringing on federal spending like the CERB, other Canadians have bumped up their savings over the last year. Personal savings stand at roughly $180… Read more »
First, Take Wage Subsidy; Second, Pay Dividends
Description: An analysis by CBC of 53 Canadian public companies shows that over half of them have paid out dividends to shareholders while collecting the federal government’s Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). The point of the CEWS was to help these and other companies to keep their staff working while facing the economic crush of… Read more »
How About This?
Description: An opinion piece in the Globe and Mail this past week offered that cutting student debt may be an excellent policy alternative for generating entrepreneurship in Canada. Over the past few decades, government support for higher education has declined. Combine this with higher tuition and it means students are graduating with higher debt loads…. Read more »
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