Don’t let entrepreneurship concerns shield passive investors from fair taxes

We should eliminate unjustified tax breaks, and craft targeted capital gains exemptions that incentivize beneficial behaviours.

Canada could do more to attract ambitious founders, but there is no equivalent rationale for providing preferential treatment to many other kinds of capital gains, write Lucas Szwarcberg and Ramiz Razzak. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY LUCAS SZWARCBERG, RAMIZ RAZZAK

May 22, 2024

If you have been following Canadian news recently, you might be bracing for economic Armageddon. Since the federal government announced it would increase the inclusion rate for capital gains from one-half to two-thirds above certain thresholds, critics have been quick to den...

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