the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

In our latest for The Breach, Jared and I do a deep dive on how continued tax haven abuse is not just despite our government policy - it's because of our government policy.

Great to see income inequality getting the in-depth coverage it deserves! When we think about economic policy, we need to think not just about growth, but about how economic growth will be distributed - too often it has benefitted shareholders and CEOs, not workers.

After decades of international cooperation and the domestic implementation of a global minimum corporate tax, the use of tax havens must be declining, right? Actually, our new report finds Canadian assets in tax havens hit a record $682B in 2024, up 165% from 2014 www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

When asked about preventing corporate tax avoidance, Carney promised to review the corporate tax system but failed to commit to any meaningful action to stop the use of tax havens. With @c4tf.bsky.social, I explained why all parties need to address this now: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

While affordability concerns heightened during the pandemic, they were not new... Half of Canadians’ market incomes increased less than the cost of living from 1982 to 2022. Shelter costs increased from 23.4% of a typical household’s budget in 1982 to 31.4%. www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...