Author : Ian Hudson
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 9780886274412
Cold Cuts: The Impact of Cuts to the City of Winnipeg s Business Tax by Ian Hudson Pdf
Since the tax differential between the an increase in the tax base to compensate for downtown and the rest of the city is only sup- the decline in the tax rate. [...] Benefits However, even were the cost of the tax cuts spread across all of the departments, this would Of course, a transfer of money from the gov- merely mean that rather than one program ernment to the private sector does not only bearing the entire burden of the cuts, while the hurt the government and the people who use its rest remain unscathed, all of the departments programs. [...] Since the only businesses for example, then the ability of the firm to pass within the city that are exempt from the tax are on the tax depends on the conditions in that those that operate out of private homes, which specific product market. [...] Part of the benefit of this would imply that landlords in the city, the tax reduction undoubtedly will go to firms rather than the business community in general, in the city, but part will also go to consumers would have to bear the burden of the tax in of the products produced by businesses in the order to try and compete with other regions. [...] Of course, this somewhat City of Winnipeg is done in the local economy overstates the propensity to consume locally (building a road in the city for example), while a when the city is our area of analysis, since some portion of the tax money returned to Winnipeg Winnipeg spending will occur outside the city businesses will be spent outside the region.
