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Biggest First Home Savings Account beneficiaries are high-income Canadians who would likely have bought a home anyway: new report
Our new research shows that one of Canada’s most popular tax incentives for home ownership is turning into a program that benefits those who need it least. And it risks undermining the very policy goals it was meant to solve.
Scattergun tax breaks are not the solution to our economic woes. Here’s where we should start
So much about what has made our economy work in the past has been turned on its head over the past year — our supply chains, our access to the U.S. market, our flow of foreign labour, the predictability of our financial markets, and the financing of universities that produce our intellectual capital.
A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy
Since the pandemic ended, life for the wealthy has been a joyride. Life for the rest of us has, more often than not, been a grind.
Shelter vs. Tax Shelter
Research examining the impact of housing tax incentives—particularly the FHSA—on Canadian affordability. As more savings from affluent families flow into tax-sheltered accounts, there’s a cost to everyone else.
Canada’s K-shaped economy, by the numbers
What the numbers say about wealth, inequality and affordability since the pandemic. Some number-crunching by the Canadian Tax Observatory and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
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