Personal income tax rates are being hiked across the board, between one and three percentage points depending on income.
debt and deficit
April 25, 2016
12:52PM
April 22, 2016
11:24AM
Manitoba’s newly-elected government faces some important fiscal challenges.
April 18, 2016
12:00PM
The province has run an operating deficit in all but one year since 2008/09—even when oil prices exceeded $90 per barrel.
April 6, 2016
3:00AM
The deficits to fiscal year 2020-21 will total $118.6 billion.
April 5, 2016
3:17PM
By the early 1990s, a third of all federal government revenue was being used simply to pay interest on the debt.
April 1, 2016
10:41AM
The $5.4 billion projected deficit in 2015/16 is driven by higher spending—not a weak economy.
March 30, 2016
11:36AM
At $29.4 billion, the projected budget deficit in 2016/17 is larger than the cumulative budget deficits projected for the entire mandate in the Liberal platform.
March 24, 2016
9:35AM
By 2017/18 spending will be up by $50 billion from 2014/15, representing a jump of 20 per cent.
March 19, 2016
3:10AM
Why has Ontario racked up so much debt?