Capital Gains Hike to Yield less Revenue than Expected

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  1. Appropriate_Item3001 on

    Time to implement a wealth tax. We must find more money to give around the world instead of allowing Canadians to have a decent quality of life.

    This is only going to get worse if the NDP-Liberal government stay in power.

  2. Repulsive_Web9393 on

    Talking with my accountant, I think they were hoping a lot of people would cash out to avoid the additional tax, and than they have a quick inrush of cash. Turns out no body did anything.

  3. How many times now have the LPC and it’s followers rejected the predictions of classical economics, only to prove then true.

  4. the_sound_of_a_cork on

    They could eliminate the Principal Residence Exemption right now and raise 15B per year in revenue. But, that’s not as popular as attacking the ‘rich’ capital class.

  5. It’s because people started investing less in the country. Canadian productivity way down as a result. There is a point where taxes are actually too high.

  6. It was and is just a tax policy. It didn’t destroy the economy to have a 66% inclusion rate under Harper and and it was never going to under Trudeau.

    Everyone with means sat down with their accountant and got some sense talked into them so they didn’t fire sale their capital assets. Everyone else wasn’t going to be affected anyway because of the thresholds on the inclusion rate. This policy was only ever going to result in a long-term but small increase in tax revenue and a small redistributive effect at the top end.

    The Liberals are *not* fire-breathing communists economically. It’s worse than that – they have *no* underlying economic theory so every policy is just a mix-and-match from the grab-bag of the past, which means a lot of what they do is counteracting the rest of what they’re attempting, leading to an incoherent fiscal policy that serves nobody’s interest.

  7. Millionaires and billionaires always have a way to not pay. The system is rigged by criminals and traitors.

  8. Radiant_Ad_6986 on

    Just a reminder that on a population adjusted basis tCanada employs 6x more people and spends 7x more money on federal tax collection than the US. Tax collection is big business up here in Canada.

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