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FHSAs were meant to help new home-buyers. New data shows who wins from this tax shelter
This all makes sense if you look at the FHSA as a tax shelter. People with more money tend to have more money to put into their accounts.
But it doesn’t make as much sense for first-time housing policy at a time when affordability, especially among low-income households, is difficult.
Mark Carney’s tax-cutting spree has cost Canadians billions for small gains and dubious results
Carney has made several forays into the world of tax cuts since he became PM, in the name of easing affordability pressures and reordering the Canadian economy to deal with global disruption…. After a year of tax cutting, the impact on Canadian well-being is worth assessing.
Billionaire AI tech bros at the head table are redefining your world. Here’s why we must get ahead of this
The nature of work is definitely changing, and that, by definition, will affect how well our traditional economic policy will function. Can employment insurance and other government supports that we normally lean hard on during upheavals be relied upon in the AI economy?
Those programs usually presume a recovery of the workforce as we have known it, and not a world where labour matters less and less.
Broken Links
Only 16 per cent of people with disabilities qualify for the Disability Tax Credit and the access that certification brings to other, crucial programs. New research from Dr. Gillian Petit identifies four different links in the system that a person with a disability must steer through to access proper income security and support.
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.
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