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Uzelman: Canadian tax reform is overdue

A column by Bruce Uzelman
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~BW Uzelman

Economists and tax experts agree that Canada’s taxation system is confusing, antiquated and complex. Beyond that, income taxes are too high, and could be better balanced with other types of taxation.

There has been no major reform of the tax system since the early 1970s, and there has not been a broad study of the tax system since the Royal Commission on Taxation in the 1960s.

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