12 per cent of small business owners use their companies as tax shelters: poll

'It is undoubtedly true, as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has pointed out, that some small business owners use their enterprises as tax shelters,' says Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Stephen Harper ridiculed Justin Trudeau two weeks ago for claiming a “large percentage” of Canadians who register small businesses use them as a tax shelter—and a new Forum Research poll may indicate why Mr. Harper and his base of supporters...

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