Fixing Fiscal Federalism to Improve Canada’s Productivity Performance

James Milway

International Productivity Monitor, 2005, vol. 11, 11-20

Abstract: Canada’s current system of fiscal federalism, which results in very large transfers of resources from have provinces to have-not provinces, promotes consumption over investment and hence does not maximize our productivity potential. The author recommends reform of Employment Insurance towards a true insurance program with the elimination of the interprovincial social transfer aspects of the program, and a shift in the tax system from business income to consumption by reducing corporate taxes and raising the Goods and Services Tax.

Keywords: Productivity; Tax; Employment Insurance; Unemployment Insurance; Fiscal Federalism; Federalism; Transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 H55 H77 J65 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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