At the Manning Networking Conference Charles Cirtwill of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) suggested replacing the government transfers with Milton Friedman’s idea of a negative income tax.
Op-ed in the Cape Breton Post: How to reform a tax regime is a dog’s breakfast of facts, opinions and possible solutions. The Nova Scotia Chamber of Commerce has published a treatise on municipal tax reform that outlines the problem and proposes some solutions. And the chamber has agreement from the the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — think-tanks on opposite ends of the political spectrum.
AIMS mentioned in the Chronicle Herald's 'Herald Magazine.'
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill says that property taxes are inefficient, wasteful, have no connection to the services you’re seeing, no connection to your ability to pay and essentially are a drag on economic investment and business activity.
Michael Bradfield, research associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; Charles Cirtwill, president, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies; and Wayne Fiander, executive director, Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce respond to an editorial by Marilla Stephenson on the idea of municipal income tax.
MP Scott Brison gave a speech to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, calling for Maritimers to take a long view. He said that this region, with its debts expanding and fiscal capacity shrinking, could be courting insolvency within 10 years.
Op-ed in The Chronicle Herald - At every corner, it seems, tax burdens are rising. Taxpayers in the Halifax region have good reason to be skeptical of recent calls for the city to adopt an income tax model as a means to collect revenue.
AIMS has teamed up with NS Chambers of Commerce and the CCPA-NS to encourage the province to ditch property taxation.
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill talks municipal tax reform on Global Maritimes.
Op-ed in The Chronicle Herald As three groups push for a shift to income tax as a way to fund municipal services, a problematic assumption has been made: that higher assessments have to equally mean higher tax bills.