change - Blog - Brock Shores Financial #ImprovingFutures2024-03-28T09:55:32Zhttps://improvingfutures.ning.com/blog/feed/tag/changeWalkawayshttps://improvingfutures.ning.com/blog/walkaways2022-12-17T23:37:20.000Z2022-12-17T23:37:20.000ZTimothy Rosshttps://improvingfutures.ning.com/members/TimothyRoss<div><p> </p>
<p>“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide.<br />But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.”<br />Psalms 55:12-14<br /><br /></p>
<p>“Cast your cares on the LORD<br />and he will sustain you;<br />he will never let<br />the righteous be shaken.”<br />Psalms 55:22<br />From the same chapter .. David acknowledges His goodness despite all. <br />So grateful for His faithfulness 💗 for His word 🙌</p></div>A Little Entertainmenthttps://improvingfutures.ning.com/blog/a-little-entertainment2019-08-23T10:49:57.000Z2019-08-23T10:49:57.000ZTimothy Rosshttps://improvingfutures.ning.com/members/TimothyRoss<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3443487409?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I have been reading a few posts from various investment managers about how Disney has been ramping up for a distribution model for their movies on line and how that will improve their value. Came across this article this morning and felt it is worth sharing, gives us some perspective about the new service. As a Netflix subscriber, I can see this playing out, check it out.</p>
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<p>Photo throw back from Oct 2016, delivery of potatoes to the Brockville Food Bank, one of our annual efforts to #ImprovingFutures , gleaning the fields at Tincap Berry Farm near end of season, 10,000 plus produce donated to various food banks in the area</p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Canada's tax system does not align with international trends nor does enough to promote global competitiveness.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Canada's tax system needs to do more to help businesses grow and innovate.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Questions remain about whether or not Canada's tax expenditures are achieving intended goals at the right cost, but it is clear they do make the system more complex.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Canada's personal tax system discourages compliance in many cases, and there may be better ways to deliver social benefits more efficiently and effectively.</li>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-polls-2019-election-1.4870074?fbclid=IwAR0o7iYPiKXhzMztOyWsDm8jHE2ubaKyScu0SQ7MrPRzE_B-vXjdYyAraIk">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-polls-2019-election-1.4870074?fbclid=IwAR0o7iYPiKXhzMztOyWsDm8jHE2ubaKyScu0SQ7MrPRzE_B-vXjdYyAraIk</a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Thanks for sharing the article, looks like Scheer needs to work on getting more known .... “though a majority of voters no longer have a positive impression of him. But he leads Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer” perhaps the win on our local shores yesterday is a sign of things to come, in the meantime expect the cash flow to increase to grease the political economy, the kids can pay for it .... maybe , just maybe we should start taxing those who are non residents, living and working abroad, why should they have the benefit of access to our embassies if they get in hot water, need advice, or the luxury of returning if they get a better offer on our Country’s soil ? I think that would be a good conservative policy to implement. I was just thinking about this yesterday. It would be good for Canadians and business, we live in a global economy, it’s time to focus in on this little tax opportunity and reinforce our nations citizenship capital.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">So how many Canadians are living abroad not paying any income tax to their nation ?</span></span></span></p>
<p>surely a more effective way would be to close the loopholes that allow corporations to hide billions offshore to avoid taxation.</p>
<p>The CRA knows full well that countless large corporations are hiding money in tax havens abroad to avoid paying but they do nothing about it.</p>
<p>And for the record, Canadians working overseas do have to file their taxes, it’s just there’s a high threshold before they are required to pay taxes on it</p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x">The threshold should probably be dropped down to the middle class level, Fair is fair , you have to get the pennies from those that benefit</span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x">Like Ford, a little bit here, a little bit there and you get your budget back in line</span></span></p>
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<p>you mean like, a little from the hospitals, a few nurses here, a few nurses there. A few schools here and there. A little from the poor, a little more from the poor. A little from green energy subsidization. Sell off some profit generating aspects of the government.</p>
<p>Back to the days of Mike the Knife Harris before we know it</p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x">No, if your a Canadian living abroad, you pay the same tax rate less what you pay in the country you live in, simple, effective, fair</span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">fair in what capacity? Pay for services I can’t use? Pay 20-30% of my income to a government that isn’t providing any services for me? Then pay another 17% to the Korean government in income tax. Get real.<br />
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If that’s the case, are we going to see your men of the people Ford and Scheer go after corporate tax avoidance, their use of tax havens, and questionable loopholes to not have to pay their share? Cut the unnecessary and pointless subsidies they get from the government, which they pocket and do not re-invest.<br />
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There’s a better chance of the Green Party winning the next election than there is the conservatives (or liberals for that matter) go after their rich friends and demand they pay their fair share</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Your a Canadian, that’s is worth a couple bucks a day in my books</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">2 billion dollars from those abroad every yr will help hire a few auditors for sure</span></span></span></p>
<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">You will get to vote as well, sounds like a bargain to me</span></span></span></p>
<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">this is a great idea, I am sure the Green Party and ndp will love it. It’s a bit socialist, but very capitalist at the same time, Canada invested in a person, they should get a return for that investment. Especially if that person win the birthplace lottery and found themselves getting the benefit of a doctor, school teacher, bus driver, born in a hospital, took a bus somewhere, drive a car over a bridge or on a 4 lane highway after it was plowed after a snow storm, they should pay a little back for winning that lottery. If they managed to get a decent job overseas , why they should pay at least a percentage of that extra just like everyone else that decided to stay. Alternatively, pay an exit fee , kinda like buying your pension back, you can scale anything and make it fair.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">that system is already there. Canadians working abroad making a certain amount of money are required to pay back. Those who benefited from Canada’s services and high standard of living are asked to give back. Your idea is to lower the threshold and squeeze the smaller folk, which has always been the policy of the conservatives. Protect the wealthy, and crush the poor</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Collect extra 2 billion dollars, that’s the goal</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"> from those who can afford it the least? Why not start by cutting our subsidies to those who have more than enough?<br />
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We give subsidies to corporations and the rich and instead of re-investing the money, they hoard it. As we’ve seen with GM, and in recent years, Heinz, Proctor-Gamble, Caterpillar, that regardless of how profitable they are, and the subsidies they receive, their greed will never be satisfied and they will abandon their workers</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g"> Have tax laws and processes changed since the Trudeau government began, or are they the same as the Harper government's policies and laws?</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">Announcing foreign aid alongside celebrities is a long standing tradition. <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Fgta%2F2014%2F02%2F28%2Faga_khan_prime_minister_stephen_harper_announce_100m_joint_aid_venture.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3JXUTvpu8paecoYxpgpuxdnwxC5V2WwLwHjDwN0xmH4S7kFIPkZiaz4wU&h=AT0WjDfCa6OOdSiL2y962YjuVU8O0XwopB4hmoHMumg3N7eR9JrCnZAvZ_mPuqY9jgBmuVngSIp8ZocNgU12zMVIXZipDPbIcPfAUkxmW8r5Rvxd5TCYWPVnczfcBmLoPe2s1m5txc9j" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-lynx-mode="hover">https://www.thestar.com/.../aga_khan_prime_minister...</a> Yes...thanks that we can speak freely about attempts to politicize aid announcements, either by governments, or by criticizing governments.</span></span></span></p>
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