Finance committee  As an economist, efficiency is a dangerous word. What exactly do you mean by efficient?

Finance committee  One of the most important things to consider is whether or not what you're doing is going to produce any incremental benefit. Let's take the child tax fitness credit. The goal of that was to increase the number of kids in athletic sports. What we do know from the evidence is that

Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  It really boils down to the rationale for the tax credit. The benefit of the GST tax credit is predominantly to overcome the regressivity of a tax measure that we have implemented. So consumption taxes are known to be highly regressive; that is, they affect low-income households

Finance committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. I assume you can hear me?

Finance committee  Thank you. My name is Dr. Lindsay Tedds. I am an associate professor of economics in the school of public administration at the University of Victoria. My primary area of expertise is Canadian tax policy, with a particular focus on design and implementation. With that, I woul

Finance committee  Yes, I can. Thank you.