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Archive for 'Jayson Myers'

Corporate Tax Giveaway to the U.S.

A few months ago, I tore a strip off Barrie McKenna’s column on internal trade. But today I write to praise his column on corporate taxes: U.S.-based companies . . . are taxed by the Internal Revenue Service on their global income. So any profits they don’t reinvest and try to repatriate are hit with [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under corporate income tax, Jayson Myers, media, US.
January 31st, 2011
Comments: 2

Do Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Investment Over the Hurdle?

Andrew Jackson has engaged perhaps the strongest theoretical argument for corporate tax cuts: that they make more new investments viable by lowering the pre-tax return needed to get over an after-tax hurdle rate of return. (Indeed, I remember the C. D. Howe Institute’s Finn Poschmann lionizing Andrew Coyne for making this argument halfway through TV [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under C. D. Howe Institute, corporate income tax, investment, Jayson Myers.
January 21st, 2011
Comments: 18

Corporate Taxes and Jobs: Myers Discovers the Business Cycle

I have reviewed Jayson Myers’ recent Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters report on corporate tax cuts, which I made public yesterday. Proponents of lower corporate taxes usually argue that these will help Canada compete with other countries in attracting internationally-mobile investment. However, as Myers admits, “over the past decade, reductions in Canada’s effective and average combined [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under corporate income tax, economic models, Jayson Myers.
January 13th, 2011
Comments: 7

Jay Myers Shills for Corporate Tax Cuts

Jayson Myers from the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is touting a report supposedly showing that corporate tax cuts will create 99,000 jobs. News stories indicate that it is “set for release” or “being released Wednesday morning.” I could not find the report online, so I phoned the CME. I was initially told that it [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under corporate income tax, Jayson Myers, manufacturing, media, StatCan.
January 12th, 2011
Comments: 4

Let’s Import our Way to Manufacturing Recovery.

Today Stephen Harper announced that the Conservatives will support the hard hit manufacturing sector  by “abolishing tariffs on a wide range of imported machinery and equipment.” There’s no question that higher rates of real investment in new plant and equipment are essential to a manufacturing recovery.  That’s why manufacturing unions,  the CLC and all parties [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Jayson Myers, manufacturing.
October 7th, 2008
Comments: 5

Policy Conference Presentations

The presentations from the Ottawa Economics Association’s 2007 Policy Conference are now available online. They include a fascinating exposition on China’s manufacturing sector, a business perspective on Canadian manufacturing, Buzz Hargrove on the Canadian economy, and the Fraser Institute’s take on global warming.

Posted by Erin Weir under climate change, Fraser Institute, global imbalances, industrial policy, Jayson Myers, labour market, unions.
April 3rd, 2007
Comments: 1