Fraser Institute News Release: With the Income Tax Deadline Looming, Canadians Challenged by an Increasingly Complex Tax System
(firmenpresse) - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/27/15 -- As deadline day approaches for filing personal income tax returns, Canadians are being forced to wrestle with an ever evolving tax system that is much more complicated than it was in the 1990s, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
"Canadian families and businesses incur significant costs to comply with the tax system including time and direct spending on accountants, lawyers and computer software packages. A key factor driving these costs is the complexity of our tax system," said Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of .
The study aims to quantify just how byzantine Canada''s tax system has become.
For example, between 1990 and 2014, the text area (the number of pages multiplied by the size of the pages) occupied by the federal Income Tax Act increased to 1,575,537 cm(2) from 974,050 cm(2). Expressed differently, Canada''s printed tax laws now cover 62 per cent more space than they did in the 1990s.
Other indicators examined in the study include:
"What''s clear is that all indicators point to an increase in federal tax complexity for Canadian families, businesses and even governments A worthwhile goal is to simplify the tax system, making it easier to understand and less expensive in time and money," Lammam said.
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The Fraser Institute is an independent Canadian public policy research and educational organization with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal and ties to a global network of think-tanks in 87 countries. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for Canadians, their families and future generations by studying, measuring and broadly communicating the effects of government policies, entrepreneurship and choice on their well-being. To protect the Institute''s independence, it does not accept grants from governments or contracts for research. Visit
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