Taxing Canadian expats not the silver bullet for generating post-COVID revenue

The flawed U.S. example and anecdotal evidence fail to justify such a change or even a study, given that there are more important taxation and related policy questions.

Liberal MP Chandra Arya recently argued in Policy Options that Canada should switch to a taxation model based on residency. In a rebuttal, Andrew Griffith says this is a questionable path to take. Photograph courtesy of the office of Chandra Arya

Opinion

BY ANDREW GRIFFITH

April 29, 2020

Chandra Arya, the Liberal MP for Nepean, Ont., recently argued for changing the current residency-based taxation approach to the U.S. citizenship-based taxation (CBT) approach, u...

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