Over the last five years, the British Columbia government has raised taxes on the province’s top income earners including doctors, entrepreneurs and businessowners. While these tax increases were meant to generate more revenue for Victoria to provide public services, they’ve simply made the province less attractive to high income earners and have likely done little to generate more revenue.
Here’s what happened.
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