taxes

(Report in Brief). (Full report can be emailed to you). Report of the Technical Committee of Business Taxation for the Canadian Department of Finance. Committee mandate to review taxes paid by Canadian business and recommend ways of improving the business tax system. Useful background on issues of tax system integration and neutrality, critical elements in understanding federal subsidies to energy.

Gerard M. Brannon. A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of energy subsidies and taxes as instruments of government policy. It is one of the earlier assessments of this problem. A premise of the report is the exploration of how subsidies and taxation affected the "energy crisis" of the early 1970's and how they could be utilized to generate more favorable responses and outcomes to future crises.