Who pays for Canada? : taxes and fairness / edited by E.A. Heaman and David Tough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heaman, E. A. (Elsbeth A.), 1964- editor.

Tough, David, 1971- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--Canada.

Taxation.

Fiscal policy--Canada.

Fiscal policy.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; Chicago ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Foreword Tax Transparency and Perceptions of Fairness: What It Means, How to Get It, and Why It Matters

Acknowledgments

Introduction Broadening the Tax Conversation

The Comparative Politics of Tax Fairness

1 Funding the State: Taxation in Canada from a Comparative Political Economy Perspective

2 Taxation and Self-Government

The History of Tax Fairness

3 Jealousy of Taxes

4 "Set Apart for the Children of Colored Taxpayers of the Entire Town": Race, Schools, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Chatham, Ontario

5 How History Helps Us Think about the Politics of Tax Fairness

The Economics Of Tax Fairness

6 How to Sell Tax Reform: Lessons from Canada's Three Major Postwar Tax Reforms

7 The Limits of Taxation for Reducing Income Inequality

8 Who Pays for Municipal Governments? Pursuing the User Pay Model

The Gender Of Taxation And Tax Breaks

9 Tax Fairness for Families: Evolution of an Idea

10 Are Tax Loopholes Sexist? The Gender Distribution of Federal Tax Expenditures

11 Gender Inequality and Canadian Fiscal Policy: From "Taxing for Growth" to "Taxing for Gender Equality"

The Making Of The Modern Taxpayer

12 Tax Fairness and the Party System: A History

13 Knowledge and Attitudes regarding Taxation

14 Exposing the Political Chameleon: Insights into Canadian Taxpayers' Perceptions of Tax Fairness

Obstacles To Democratic Tax Accountability

15 The Rock Is a Hard Place: Redistributing Wealth in Twenty-First-Century Newfoundland

16 Who Dies for Canada? How Settler Colonial Dispossession Funds the State

17 Canadians Shaping Tax Havens

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Who pays for Canada?

ISBN:

9780228002604

0228002605

9780228002598

0228002591

Publisher Number:

40030099135

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