Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Trippin' for the flat tax

The growing trend in Oh-eight may see multi-nationals close down some of their operations in Canada and North America (where taxes are high) and relocate those operations to lower tax rate countries...like, say, a [tax] hospitable jurisdiction somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Ouch.

Update

I see UPM-Kymmene Corp. is getting in early on this trend. Not surprising since I see they put significant stock in SMEs and low taxes unlike a jurisdiction we all know too well. (Hat tip Rob)

2 Comments:

At Dec 19, 2007, 7:30:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alberta has had a flat provincial tax for some time now. It works well, the tax was put in before the oil and gas windfall came into effect.

 
At Dec 20, 2007, 7:51:00 AM , Blogger Independent said...

UPM Kymmene is opening three large mills, worth 1.4 Billion dollars, in Russia.

http://tinyurl.com/3ytblc

I guess its that much easier to do business in Russia than New Brunswick.

 

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