/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4264/all en /newsroom/channels/news/media-advisory-who-pays-canada-taxes-and-fairness-285154 <p>Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel argue? How do we maintain a sense and an approximation of fairness in our globalizing and polarizing world? Certainly there can be no fairness without tax fairness: tax policy is where we negotiate the relationship between wealth and poverty.</p> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:06:33 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 32972 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-panama-papers-260062 <div> <p>"The hidden identities of 350 Canadians with offshore tax haven investments have been <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/panama-papers-tax-evasion">revealed in the private database of one of the world’s leading shell company registration firms</a>, according to a Toronto Star analysis of a massive leak obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. (<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/04/how-offshore-tax-havens-are-costing-canada-billions-of-dollars-a-year.html">The Toronto Star</a>)</p></div> Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:44:04 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25644 at /newsroom /newsroom/larry-goldsman Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23852 at /newsroom /newsroom/benjamin-croitoru Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 24042 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/how-cut-corporate-tax-avoidance-255951 <p> Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:29:05 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 24517 at /newsroom