House Finance Committee dives into offshore tax havens again ‘to get answers for Canadians,’ says NDP MP Julian

The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated that tax avoidance was costing Canada up to $25-billion per year back in 2019.

NDP MP Peter Julian, left, CSG Senator Percy Downe, right. Mr. Julian says that 'we have a situation where the impact of these offshore tax havens—the impunity with which they can be used—is devastating on Canadians.'The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Cynthia Münster

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

May 17, 2021

The long-standing problems posed by the billions of dollars in offshore tax havens are once again on the front-burner in Canadian politics, following the release of the 2021 budget last month and the start of a study on the issue by the House Finance Committee. The work of the committee follows a r...

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