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47 Tax Memo 1 (1968)

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TAX MEMO




No.   47                                             October, 1968


            © 1968, Canadian Tax Fowundation


Report of the Select Committee

    of  the   Ontario Legislature


  The Select Committee of the Ontario
Legislature was appointed on May 31,
1968, to conduct an examination of the
recommendations of the Report of the
Ontario Committee on Taxation (the
Smith Committee), to examine briefs
and submissions made to the govern-
ment  concerning its recommendations
and to conduct further hearings on it.
The Select Committee reported on Sep-
tember 16, 1968, in a one-volume work
of some 300 pages entitled, Taxation in
Ontario: A Program for Reform.


  The  Select Committee consisted of
13 members  of the Legislature under
the Chairmanship of John H. White,
M.P.P. Separate Minority Reports were
also submitted by both the Liberal and
New  Democratic Party members of the
Select Committee.
  This Tax Memo   sets out the high-
lights of the Select Committee's
Majority Report. The full text of the
Smith  Committee's recommendations
are found in the Canadian Tax Foun-
dation's Tax Memo No. 45, of August,
1967.


Highlights


The Tax  Burden
  The Select Committee adopted as its
major premise, from which many of its
recommendations flowed, that the com-
bined provincial and municipal tax
burdens should be allocated on the
principle of ability to pay; this would
require the restructuring of the provin-
cial tax system along more progressive


lines, in the interests of social justice
and economic growth. To  achieve a
desirable tax mix the Committee indi-
cated that Ontario must increase its
reliance on corporate and personal
income taxes and recommended  that
when additional revenues were required,
these taxes be used to yield an appro-
priate share of the increment.


Additional copies of thisa Memo may be obtained at a price of 25t


            CANADIAN TAX FOUNDATION
L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D'ETUDES FISCALES

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