Tax season is fast approaching, but there are limited opportunities for Canadians to influence how their taxes are spent. Here’s how a new innovation could lead to a more democratic tax system.
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Politicisation of taxpayer-funded advertising is wasteful and creates an uneven playing field in elections.
Study after study has shown that stadiums are terrible public investments. Taxpayers rarely want to pay for them. So why do governments keep subsidizing them?
The IRS has yet to finish millions of returns from the 2021 tax season. That doesn’t bode well for 2022.
The 2017 tax cuts put a $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local taxes. The richest households would see the biggest gains from eliminating or raising the cap.
Dozens of prosperous countries save billions of dollars and hours annually by not requiring residents to fill out tax returns, so what is the United States waiting for?
Instead of wage subsidy and business loan schemes, allowing households, workers and employers to borrow against future income could be more efficient and equitable in the long run.
Once paid, tax becomes the property of the government. Pretending otherwise undermines the basic principles of the social contract.
Congress tends to use the tax code to implement policy, which increases complexity and creates loopholes wealthy taxpayers like Trump can exploit.
Because the rich often have complicated deductions that dabble in the gray areas of tax law, it’s simply easier to audit the straightforward taxes of the working poor.
Which candies count as candy in the eyes of the tax law? The answer often depends on one ingredient.
The South African government is going ahead with the National Health Insurance scheme but has yet to detail how it is to be funded. What seems certain is that taxpayers will foot the bill.
The latest Murray-Darling Basin scandal calls into question whether the government is using public money wisely.
Charter school operators have been capitalizing on lax laws that let them lease building space to themselves at above-market rates. A simple ban could end the practice, two education scholars argue.
A Four Corners/Fairfax investigation shows the need for an advisory board to make sure that tax officers are accountable as part of the Taxpayers’ charter.
There needs to be a more honest debate around the topic of foreign aid – there isn’t much evidence in the claim that it’s a pressing concern for much of the public.
Achievement is largely locked in by the age of 25, so those who do not have a Year 12 qualification by then are unlikely ever to have one.
The burden of filing our taxes appears to be growing, especially for those who tend to wait until the last minute to fill in their 1040s.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said backpackers would be better off working in Australia with a 19% tax than in New Zealand, England and Canada. Is that true? And what would a 15% or 10.5% tax mean?
After Australia announced a refugee deal with the US, Labor’s Kate Ellis told Q&A that millions of dollars were spent on an earlier deal with Cambodia, yet very few lives were changed. Is that right?
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Senior lecturer in democracy studies, University of Canberra
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Professor of Taxation Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
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Research Chair in Education and Director of the Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Professor of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW Sydney
