Notes for C.D. Howe conference “Taxing Canadian Business: Time For Change” Toronto ON, April 8th 2016 — As the first speaker I will take on the role of table-setter. I will do this by first providing some motivation about why we should care about business taxation–a pre-game pep talk for us wonks. Second, I will […]
Notes prepared for roundtable on fossil fuel divestment Event hosted by Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC April 6/2016 Notes by: Kevin Milligan, Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics Updated 7pm after the roundtable…see at bottom. — I have seen four arguments put forward in favour of divestment from fossil fuel assets. I find […]
Below is the text of a lunch talk I presented to the Ottawa Economics Association on January 27, 2016 in Ottawa. The slides for the talk are available here. ———————————————— Budget preview Ottawa Economics Association January 27, 2016 Chateau Laurier, Ottawa Thank you very much for the invitation to speak to this group. I’m […]
Comments on Conservative platform costing October 9, 2015 Professor Kevin Milligan, Vancouver School of Economics University of British Columbia Motivation and Disclosure Economists from the Conservative campaign team asked me a few days ago if I could take a look at their platform costing. I was not involved in the development of the Conservative platform […]
Comments on Liberal Fiscal Plan and Costing Professor Kevin Milligan, Vancouver School of Economics University of British Columbia September 26, 2015 In this blog post, I am providing an assessment of the Fiscal Plan and Costing document circulated today by the Liberal Party of Canada. Disclosure and Motivation As outlined in my disclosure, I have […]
I will be presenting in the CARE Workshop at Memorial University in St. John’s. Room A2065 in the Arts and Administration Building. Time is 3:00pm. The topic is “How to Tax Families with kids? Putting Children at the Centre of the Analysis.” The slides can be found here.
I’m honoured to be awarded the 2015 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize, given annually to significant writing on Canadian economic policy over the previous year. The award recognized my C.D. Howe Institute Benefactors’ Lecture “Tax Policy for a New Era: Promoting Economic Growth and Fairness” given in Toronto in November. I thank the selection committee for […]
I’m presenting today at a conference organized by the University of Calgary School of Public Policy. The conference is about the Canadian personal income tax, and my presentation is about the rate and bracket structure that determines how progressive the PIT system is. The papers from the conference will eventually be published, but for now […]
I’m speaking tonight at a UBC Dialogue organized by the UBC Alumni Association on the topic of child poverty in BC. Here are some background notes. First, here is a graph using CANSIM data showing the proportion of children living in families below the Low Income Cutoff and the Low Income Measure. The Low Income […]
I recently received an email from some graduate students at the University of Toronto asking for advice drawn from my experience from 1999-2000 with the Teaching Assistant strike by CUPE 3902 at U. of T. Below is an edited version of my response. —– I was sorry to hear that 3902 is out on strike again. […]