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• Value-Added Tax Treatment of Public Sector Bodies and Non-Profit Organizations: A Developing Country Perspective

  BNET - 2005-07-14

  The application of the value-added tax to public sector bodies, non-profit organizations and charitable organizations substantially departs from full taxation in most VAT regimes around the world. The problems with the mostly exempt regime for those organizations are reviewed. Options to modify or replace the regime are reviewed and assessed...

  Tags: Public Sector, Developing Country, Organization, University Of Toronto, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance

• New Books

  - 2005-04-01

  Barnhart, Gordon L., éd. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. 418 pp.Barr, William. Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stall-worthy, RCMP. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. 400 pp. $34.95 paper.Beauchemin, Jacques. La Société des identities: Éthique et politique dans...

  Tags: Books, cloth, FINANCE, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Taxes, Toronto, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Vancouver

• New Books

  - 2005-01-01

  Baranek, Patricia, Raisa B. Deber and A. Paul Williams. Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 340 pp. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.Baxter, Judith, ed. Clifton Royal: The Wetmores and Village Life in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick. Gatineau, QC: The Canadian Museum of Civilization. 414...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Books, Canada, cloth, FINANCE, Kingston Technology Corp., Litigation, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Taxes, Toronto, University of Toronto, Vancouver

• Reformulating the Tax Incentive Program in Jordan: Analysis and Recommendations

  BNET - 2004-12-01

  The primary objective of this paper is to assist Jordan's Minister of Industry & Trade and Minister of Finance to formulate a new program of investment incentives, based on international best practice, to be used as the basis for regulations to support "The Investment Law of 2003" (hereafter The Investment...

  Tags: Incentive, Tax Incentive, Analysis, University Of Toronto, Taxes, Free Trade, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales

• Payroll Taxes and the Decision to Be Self-Employed

  BNET - 2003-07-08

  This paper investigates and quantifies the role of payroll taxes in the decision to be self-employed. It examines the effects of introducing into the labour market a payroll tax which taxes employers, but which exempts the self-employed. It exploits two changes in the tax legislation to confirm that it is...

  Tags: Payroll, University Of Toronto, Taxes, Free Trade, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

• The Record - National Edition.(Brief Article)(Obituary)

  - 2002-03-04

  DIED: Willard Z. Bud Estey, 82, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; of cancer, in Toronto. Born in Saskatoon, he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan law school in 1941. He served with the Canadian Army during the Second World War, and went to Harvard...

  Tags: FINANCE, Taxes, Toronto, University of Toronto

• Media Advisory - C.D. Howe Institute.

  - 2000-08-21

  TORONTO, Aug 21, 2000 On Tuesday, August 22, at 10:00 a.m.. the C.D. Howe Institute will release a Backgrounder entitled "The Marginal Effective Tax Rate: The Only Tax Rate that Matters in Capital Allocation," by Duanjie Chen, a professor in the International Tax Program,...

  Tags: FINANCE, NAFTA, Taxes, Toronto, University of Toronto

• Media Advisory - C.D. Howe Institute.

  - 2000-08-21

  TORONTO, Aug 21, 2000 On Tuesday, August 22, at 10:00 a.m.. the C.D. Howe Institute will release a Backgrounder entitled "The Marginal Effective Tax Rate: The Only Tax Rate that Matters in Capital Allocation," by Duanjie Chen, a professor in the International Tax Program,...

  Tags: FINANCE, NAFTA, Taxes, Toronto, University of Toronto