C4TF board member Angella MacEwen - @angella.bsky.social talks affordability and decommodification with Clem Nocos on Broadbent Institute’s Perspectives Journal podcast! 📻 💫

Who’s upset about the capital gains increase? A powerful minority of very wealthy people. People who threaten to leave if they can’t make millions more than everyone else. People who still peddle the lie about wealth “trickling down”. Canadians can’t eat rhetoric! #TaxTheRich

Automatic tax filing is the way of the future. Canadians who don’t file miss out on $1billion in benefits annually. 💸 The government needs to honour its promise and implement an automatic system, once and for all!

“I would gently suggest that one’s ability to dream isn’t entirely dependent on the rate at which their eventual profits are taxed.” Max Fawcett 🇨🇦 on the capital gains increase in Canada's National Observer nationalobserver.com/2024/05/01/opi…

'[There are big] inequities in the Canadian tax system... [So] we need higher top rates and elimination of various tax preference... that primarily benefit top earners.' @policyalternatives Marc Lee DT Cochrane Canadians for Tax Fairness thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Our new study with @policyalternatives outlines key problems and solutions to wealth inequality in Canada. Check out Marc Lee & DT Cochrane’s op-ed in the Toronto Star here: thestar.com/opinion/contri…

It's the April 30 tax filing deadline! But Canada's tax system is not fair! Higher-income Canadians pay proportionately less than lower-income Canadians. Read how the @policyalternatives and Canadians for Tax Fairness say we can change this! By Marc Lee, DT Cochrane monitormag.ca/reports/canada…

Canada's tax system is not fair. Here's why and what to do about it: The CCPA–BC Canadians for Tax Fairness monitormag.ca/reports/canada…

New report out today about Canada’s regressive tax system, co-authored by our brilliant former researcher, DT Cochrane, and senior economist with the @policyalternatives, Marc Lee 💫 taxfairness.ca/en/resources/r…

Great thread from Julia Levin of EnvironmentalDefence. We need to stop these subsidies! Sign here to tell Ottawa to tax oil & gas: bit.ly/C4TFgreentaxes

Great piece from Linda McQuaig & Neil Brooks on capital gains. “When it comes to the tax world, there are basically two types of people — those who have capital and those who work for a living.” thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Canadians who are unable to file their taxes miss out on over $1 billion annually in government benefits.

Erica Shiner (Erica Shiner) of Canadians for Tax Fairness on how the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Our ED, Katrina Miller, talked automatic tax filing on the Missing Middle podcast with Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 & Meredith Martin. Canadians who don’t file miss out on $1bil in benefits annually. Automatic tax filing is long overdue!

“With this change in the inclusion rate, a billion-dollar idea is still worth a billion dollars. Canadian entrepreneurs are still going to pursue it, and Canadian investors are still going to search for it.” Great piece on why outrage from some tech lobbyists is just hot air 💨

Our piece in Canadian Dimension on why the capital gains increase is an important way to #TaxTheRich :

What level of economic inequality have we reached when wealthy Canadians are penning op-eds begging to be taxed more? 💸 thestar.com/opinion/contri… Thanks to Resource Movement for this piece. Sign on to demand a wealth tax here: bit.ly/C4TFtaxtherich ✊ #TaxTheRich