Tax Reform Needed … but take the time to do it right
by JOHN RISLEY (AIMS Chairman of the Board) The Telegram, 26 September 2017 Who can blame you if you are among those scratching their heads, trying to interpret the rhetoric on both sides of the debate over Ottawa’s planned changes to the tax code? As is usual in such cases, the arguments quickly retreat to the extremes, which only serves [...]
Proposed Changes to Capital Gains Rules: What About the Family Farm?
Keeping families and jobs in rural Canada is not easy. Proposed changes to capital gains rules would make it harder for a family member to keep the family farm, according to AIMS senior fellow Sylvain Charlebois. Many wonder how values embedded in everything the family business does can survive if the next generation of the family cannot [...]
Modern Employment Insurance System
A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national standard, provided they had contributed for [...]
Tax Reform
Keeping families and jobs in rural Canada is not easy. Proposed changes to capital gains rules would make it harder for a family member to keep the family farm, according to AIMS senior fellow Sylvain Charlebois. Many wonder how values embedded in everything the family business does can survive if the next generation of the family cannot continue [...]
Employment Insurance
A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national standard, provided they had contributed [...]
Atlantic Canadians Pay Up for “Just and Reasonable” Gas Prices
A commentary posted by the American Institute for Economic Research dedicated its article to the latest study by AIMS on gas prices in Atlantic Canada, mentioning both AIMS and author/President Marco Navarro-Génie. Read here