Taxation
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Inequality of Wealth |
The inequality of wealth in Canada is far greater than the inequality of incomes — Canada’s top 40 families own more than the bottom 40% (6,186,000 households) do. For middle class … | Lars Osberg | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Inequality of wealth |
In this chapter, the author presents data on inequalities of wealth before the Covid-19 pandemic and outlines how the inequality of wealth and economic power increased in Canada throughout the … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! |
Introduces the reason behind this book and outlines the tax breaks given to the super wealthy and how they can nevigate around the tax regime to their benefit | Brigitte Alepin | 8 | 2012 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction |
In the Introduction, the author explains the background for writing this book on the growth of inequality in Canada, and the effect of the Covid pandemic and the climate crisis in recent years on … | Lars Osberg | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Never Let a Good Crisis Go to WasteFrom: The Consulting Trap |
In the Preface, the authors introduce a case study about Deloitte, a transnational professional services firm. The firm’s plan to introduce a social contact-tracing software during the … | Chris Hurl; Leah B. Werner | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Oil Sands Binges, RebrandsFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the relationship between the oil industry and the Alberta government. The industry’s approach shifted to accepting a cap on carbon emissions which permitted ongoing operations and … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From Outcomes and Opportunities |
Equalizing opportunity does not necessarily equalize outcomes. However, inequality of outcomes implies inequality of opportunity since the children of affluent parents inherit human capital and … | Lars Osberg | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Outcomes and opportunities |
In this chapter, the author asks to what extent we as a society should be concerned about factors affecting inequality of opportunity (such as race, ethnicity, gender, class) or instead about … | Lars Osberg | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From ParisBig Oil Gets Its Deal From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Poverty and Inequality |
In this chapter, the author details how incomes at the bottom of the income distribution scale have dramatically eroded in Canada in recent years. | Lars Osberg | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From Private Foundations (aka Charity for the Rich)From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! |
In Chapter 5, I look at private foundations. Contrary to popular belief, private foundations are not a good deal for public finances in the short or the medium term. A foundation has to spend … | Brigitte Alepin | 20 | 2012 | $2.00 Add |
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From Shopping Without BordersFrom: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! |
Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places … | Brigitte Alepin | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From Tax Breaks for MultinationalsFrom: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! |
Chapter 2 of this book looks at the detaxation of multinational corporations. Showcases that advocates for this note that it does not adversely affect the country’s public finances, here … | Brigitte Alepin | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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NEW! The Consulting TrapHow Professional Service Firms Hook Governments & Undermine Democracy |
The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and … | 204 | View | ||
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From The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From The Moving Picture of Incomes |
Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … | Lars Osberg | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
