Tax Expenditures Roundtables: Using the Tax System as an Instrument of Social and Economic Policy
27 November 2008
13:00 – 14:30
Four concurrent workshops
Workshop A: Room 203 NCDH
Chair: oline Twiss
Oline Twiss, “Towards reducing auto emissions: comparing fiscal and regulatory measures”
Daniel Girlando, “The Next Tax Incentive for Donations of Medicines : An Inefficient Measure with a Questionable Goal”
Guy-Philippe Bouchard, «Le rôle d'un crédit d'impôt à l'emploi dans l'essort de l'industrie éolienne de la Gaspésie»
-Discussion and Questions-
Ina Yazerskaya, “The king is naked: the real face of pension income splitting”
Palma Paciocco, "The Quebec Credit for the Treatment of Infertility: Facilitation or Equivocation?”
Ilir Orana, “The Home Mortgage Deduction”
-Discussion and Questions-
Workshop B: Seminar Room at 3674 Peel Street
Chair: Dan Illouz
Dan Illouz, “A Canadian Perspective on Barack Obama's Tax Incentive for Higher Education”
Ata Kassaian, “Purpose, Effect and Adequacy of the Principal Residence Tax Exemption: a Comparative Look”
Rob Amdursky, “Reconsidering the Principal Residence Exemption”
-Discussion and Questions-
Peter Riddell, "Tax-Free Savings Accounts: A Critical Perspective".
Aileen Smith, “The Registered Disability Savings Plan and Women in Canada”
Tom Lipton, “Working Income Tax Credit”
-Discussion and Questions-
Workshop C: Seminar Room at 3690 Peel Street
Chair: Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson, “The Purpose and Effects of the Principal Residence Exemption”
Manow Somboonwong, “Canada's Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentives: R&D Idles While Intergovernmental Tax Incentives Battle on”
Nicholas Dodd, “The Principal Residence Exemption and the Housing Sector are in a relationship. Status: It's Complicated”
-Discussion and Questions-
Lidiya Nychyk, “Low tax rate for small businesses"
Olivier Plessis, “Mining the Government: A Critical Examination of Tax Credits for the Mining Industry”
Isaac Langleben, “A Tentative Endorsement of the Tax-Free Savings Account: Why the TFSA will be the most effective and equitable tax-assisted savings plan available"”
Constantinos Magdalenos, “Capital Gains Taxation”
-Discussion and Questions-
Workshop D: Room 201– NCDH
Chair: Archana Gelda
Archana Gelda, “The design implications of Canada's new Registered Disability Savings Plan"
Andrew Biteen, “Reexamining education tax policy as education policy”
Kevin Custodio, "Tax Credits Yesterday, a Booming Industry Today: A Look into the Quebec Tax Credit for the Production of Video Games"
-Discussion and Questions-
Angus Rennie, “True North: Mapping the Northern Residents Tax Deduction”
Sam Singer, “Whoa, Careful with the Social Change! Limitations on the Political Activities of Charitable Organizations A Public Legal Education Workshop”
Claire Gilchrist, “?”
Jack Fattal, “Small Business Tax Deduction”
-Discussion and Questions-