Tax Talk With The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The politicians' solution to everything seems to be "tax it more." But today's luxury taxes have a nasty way of becoming tomorrow's everyone taxes. Take the Property Transfer Tax, for example. Jordan Bateman has more.

Jordan Bateman looks at another of the 107 taxes, fees and levies charged on new housing in the City of Vancouver - the electric vehicle charging station requirement, which can cost builders as much as $400,000.

Jordan Bateman looks at just one of the 107 taxes, fees or levies put on new housing in Vancouver - TransLink's $300,000 demand for an "overhead trolley wire watcher."

The feds, province and City of Vancouver charge at least 107 taxes, fees or levies on new home construction. Don't believe us? Jordan Bateman has the list.

Don't let the politicians and bureaucrats off the hook: they contribute to the rising cost of housing too. In the City of Vancouver, new housing is subject to at least 107 taxes, fees and levies - meaning a $294,691 condo has to sell for $403,809 - just to cover the tax bill. Jordan Bateman​ has more.

Ontario and Alberta's tax-and-spend governments are racing to bring in an assortment of carbon taxes, and our CTF directors, Paige MacPherson and Christine Van Geyn are battling them every step of the way. Paige, CVG and Prairie Director Todd MacKay talk about all that and more.

The Manning Centre's Colin Craig joined Jordan and Paige to talk about their incredible new union report, the FNFTA, and the celebrity-ness of the Trudeaus.

Manitoba voted earlier this month and chucked Greg Selinger and the NDP out of power. One of the big reasons: Selinger's broken promise to hold the line on taxes. CTF Prairie Director Todd MacKay joins hosts Paige MacPherson and Jordan Bateman to talk about the election, the fallout and more.

BC Finance Minister Michael de Jong is in Hogtown to speak to the Toronto Board of Trade, but it's Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa who should be taking copious notes. How can both these guys call themselves Liberals, when one has run 4 straight balanced budgets, and the other is on the 9th straight deficit? By Christine Van Geyn (CTF Ontario Director) and Jordan Bateman (CTF BC Director). Full text hereat taxpayer.com.

It's a two-fer Tax Talk Live, as CTF Prairie Director Todd MacKay joins Jordan and Paige to talk about the Saskatchewan election results, and Matt Bufton from the Institute for Liberal Studies talks Canadian Libertarianism. 

For a government that prides itself on holding the line on taxes and cutting red tape, the BC Liberals have sure blundered on their new off road vehicle (ORV) tax and licensing scheme.In this edition of Let's Talk Taxes, BC Director Jordan Bateman breaks the tax grab down. Print version: http://www.taxpayer.com/commentaries/bc--orvs-bogged-down-in-bureaucracy,-tax-grab

For more than a decade, the B.C. government and the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) have been locked in an expensive (and messy) court battle. Hanging in the balance is the ability of elected officials to set public policy priorities. In this edition of Let's Talk Taxes, BC Director Jordan Bateman​ shares an op-ed he co-wrote with federal director Aaron Wudrick. It's available here: http://www.taxpayer.com/commentaries/should-unions-have-the-right-to-dictate-public-policy-

The new Trudeau government is spending money like drunken sailors - plunging taxpayers into another $100 billion of debt over the next term. CTF research director Jeff Bowes joined Paige MacPherson and Jordan Bateman to break it all down.

Generation Screwed director Aaron Gun joins Paige MacPherson and Jordan Bateman to talk government debt and its impact on future generations.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation has been digging into provincial civil forfeiture laws, and the results aren't good. The CCF's staff lawyer, Derek From, joined Paige MacPherson and Jordan Bateman to talk about civil forfeiture and how it's being used across Canada.

The Teddy Waste Awards are the Super Bowl of the CTF's year, "honouring" the best of the worst of government waste. CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick handed out the awards in Ottawa and joined Alberta director Paige MacPherson and BC Director Jordan Bateman to talk about it.

Aaron Wudrick, the CTF federal director, presented the 2016 Teddy Waste Awards in Ottawa on Feb. 24. This is his news conference.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation unveiled its first ever Quebec director this week - Carl Vallee. Carl joined Paige MacPherson and guest host Todd MacKay to talk about the fiscal challenges facing la belle province.

Everyone... But The People is a new book by CTF BC Director Jordan Bateman and Torch Agency president Hamish Marshall. www.notranslinktaxbook.com How a tiny grassroots campaign, with no money, behind the polls won an upset victory against the establishment who outspent them 175 to 1. The elites thought they had it all in their campaign to impose Canada’s first municipal sales tax on the people of Metro Vancouver. A $7 million, taxpayer-funded war chest. More than 150 organizations endorsing the plan. Virtually every mayor, councillor and provincial politician on their side. Business groups, unions, environmentalists, and academics, all grinding the public to accept the sales tax and funnel $250 million more a year to TransLink, the bloated regional transit bureaucracy famous for wasting money. On the other side stood the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, with less than $40,000, and its clever, populist No TransLink Tax campaign. Led by Jordan Bateman and Hamish Marshall, the NO campaign hijacked the elites’ camp

Generation Screwed campus club coordinators Renaud Brossard and Caitlyn Madlener joined Paige and Jordan to talk about their university movement, a run-in with Finance Minister Bill Morneau, government debt, and more.