Throughout the ongoing review, orchestrated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, of the measurement and allocation of international income, the significance of manifestations of “intangibles” – intangible property in the legal sense but also features of the uniqueness of multinational enterprises and their products and services – have been at the forefront. […]
Daily Archives: January 21, 2021
Joint Tax Filing for Spouses
A threshold issue for the design of any tax system is the taxing unit. In Canada our taxing unit for personal taxation is and has always been the individual. The Carter Commission recommended we change the taxing unit to families (spouses and their dependent children) on the grounds that families constitute the basic economic […]