10 industries generated 83.5% of corporate income tax revenue collected by the Alberta government in 2019. Guess which one didn’t make the list.
Tag: budget
Personal income tax and transfer payments from Ottawa will be the largest sources of income for the UCP government this year. If it wasn’t for them, the provincial debt would be much higher.
The federal government announced upcoming changes to income support benefits it’s providing to Canadian workers. But something’s still missing.
Conservative governments cut expenses to save money from reduced revenues, because of their tax cuts, which are cut to increase profits for companies.
Last week, the federal government announced that they’d be sending nearly $2.7 million to Alberta for the Food Processing Development Centre.
Earlier this week, the provincial government announced that it’d be spending $4.5 million on mental health funding for first responders.
Tanya Fir released a statement last week regarding the jobs update from StatsCan. Given that she left out some information, I thought I’d take the liberty to respond.
The government will be shelling out over $39M for 6 projects. They claim the projects will lead to 228 jobs. But there are 3 things to keep in mind.
But the projects better not create permanent, full-time jobs.
Last week, the Alberta government announced a working group to “engage the federal government to get Alberta’s post-secondary institutions their fair share of research dollars.”