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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.
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Doug Smith has written or co-written ten books, including How To Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness, Consulted to Death: How Canada's Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Its Workers, and Joe Zucken: Citizen and Socialist, which won the Manitoba Historical Society's Margaret McWilliams Award. "As Many Liars" was nominated for the 2003 Manitoba Book Awards' Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction.
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- PublisherLitdistco
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1894037162
- ISBN 13 9781894037167
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages157
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How to Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness
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Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2002
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ISBN 10: 1894037162
ISBN 13: 9781894037167
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Book Description Near fine! Paper bound, 1st edition, Pp157. Includes references and sources. Owner name top of half title page else an unmarked copy in fine condition. Scarce! 235 grams. When the Auditor-General reported in 1996 that a wealthy Canadian family had been able to move $2 billion out of the country tax-free, the story became a media sensation. Yet it was not, one would have predicted, a story with legs. Only the naive would think the rich and well-connected do not strike behind-closed-doors deals all the time. Only the foolish would believe that anything could be done about it. The money was gone and the story would soon blow over. And it probably would have, if a quixotic social justice coalition had not taken on the issue -- and the government. Project Loophole was born. With almost no money, and experts saying there was no chance of ever even getting the case heard, Project Loophole took the federal government to court to try to force it to make one of Canada's wealthiest families do what most Canadians do every year: pay their taxes. The remarkable five-year adventure that followed provided an unprecedented view into the unfairness of Canadian tax laws, and how power operates at the highest levels. Seller Inventory # 16316
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