Arbeiter Ring Publishing

How To Tax A Billionaire

Project Loophole Case and the Campaign for Tax Fairness by Doug Smith

In 1991 an unnamed wealthy family — widely reported to be the Bronfmans — moved $2 billion out of Canada without having to pay the appropriate taxes. When CHO!CES, a Winnipeg-based social justice coalition, decided to take the federal government to court to force it to collect the tax, an amazing five-year odyssey through the legal and tax system was underway. A wild story of tenacious activists, public interest advocacy, and tax law.

Doug Smith has done a terrific job piecing together this compelling story. Provocative and well-told, How to Tax A Billionaire raises some powerful questions about the nature of Canadian democracy.”

— Linda McQuaig

Subject Business & Economics/Taxation/Corporate
Published March 2002
Price $15.95 CDN
Pages 176 pp (Paper)
Dimensions 6″ × 9″ × 0.375″
ISBN-10 1-89403716-2
ISBN-13 9781894037167

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About the Author

Doug Smith has written extensively on Manitoba labour and political history and is the author of Consulted To Death: How Canada’s Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Workers and As Many Liars: The Story of the 1995 Manitoba Vote-Rigging Scandal. He has also produced documentaries for the CBC Radio program, Ideas, and worked as an editorial consultant on a number of public inquiries in Manitoba

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