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Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's a pleasure to be part of your consultations this morning. I was invited to talk about the impact of the tax and transfer system on work decisions by low-income families. What I'll be presenting is based on a publication tha

November 29th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  I can comment on that. The new CPP will certainly have negative effects on the economy, but that does not mean that I am saying that it will destroy the economy. There are other aspects of the new CPP that have to be examined to find out whether it meets the needs. In my view,

October 26th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  Absolutely not. Pension plan premiums are a tax that does not take profits into account. Even if a company makes no profit, it still pays the premiums. In terms of investments, that has a more adverse effect than taxes on profits. Actually, economists who study social premiums o

October 26th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  Good afternoon.

October 26th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  That is a complex question, so it will be difficult to deal with it in its entirety in a few minutes. You mentioned a lower tax rate for small businesses. But SMEs form a very varied group that include some businesses that are showing strong growth, young businesses, businesses

October 26th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, it is my pleasure to appear before you today as part of your pre-budget consultations. I'll start by mentioning our pretty shadow budget. This is a document we publish every year around budget season here at the C.D. Howe Institu

October 26th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  There are indeed social costs if the inequality in incomes is too large. I would like to comment briefly on that. Yes, income inequality is important, but we have to remember that Canada's government services—so health, education and so on—make up 35% to 40% of the GDP. There ar

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  You are absolutely right, and it is the most important nuance to make. Studies were done in the early 2000s on the brain drain. That was the most important reason why many talented people stayed in Canada. It was because they preferred Canada's social climate. It is an important

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  The guaranteed annual income has been studied for many years. The biggest problem is the cost. It's extremely expensive. It's very difficult to implement. We've looked at numbers in the past and it was.... You eliminate everything. You eliminate welfare, you eliminate EI, and any

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  Initially, they were from the United States, but then there was a study from the Department of Finance of Canada. Other studies were conducted by Canadian professors. Another study was conducted by the United Kingdom government.

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  Yes. You're right. Some of the behaviours relate to fiscal planning. The economic reactions are still important, in my opinion, meaning that people may work less, make less effort, take fewer risks, invest less in the future, and so on. Those are economic reactions. There are a

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  There are all kinds of possible changes.

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  There are a lot of empirical studies on the reaction of taxpayers to taxes. In my own study on this, I collected 11 or 12 serious empirical studies that used two best practices methods in particular. The economic profession agrees with the fact that these are good methods and th

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  You're absolutely right that the income threshold in the U.S. is the highest tax rate. It's a higher income threshold than in Canada. For our high income tax rates, their tax burden would be lower in the States. That's what matters, really.

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin

Finance committee  The higher the tax rate is on talent, the higher the incentives for talent to move where it's most financially advantageous. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the truth. It doesn't mean that everyone's going to move away. That's not at all what happens, but you just need a few t

February 19th, 2016Committee meeting

Alexandre Laurin