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In the September quarter 2000, the CPI inflation rate was 6.1 per cent, while the weighted median inflation rate (before accounting for the effect of the tax) was 5.4 per cent.

Higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco products: the excise duty rate on cigarettes goes up to $ 21.56 per carton of smokes from $ 21.03, while the rates on alcohol are going up two per cent.

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

Finally, the value of deductions rises with marginal tax rates, which are higher for those with higher incomes: someone in the bottom tax bracket only gets a 10 - cent subsidy for $ 1 of deductions while someone in the top bracket gets 39.6 cents.

While full reimbursement is clearly preferable, tax relief on employment expenses at least returns a fraction (20 per cent, 40 per cent or 45 per cent, depending on whether the employee is a basic, higher or additional rate taxpayer) of the cost of the expense to the employee.

The CEBR report found that if the Government raised the rate of corporation tax from 21 per cent to 26 per cent - the result of equalising the tax rate between big and small business - would cost around 100,000 jobs from the small business sector and reduce economic output by # 4.3 bn, while reducing the public sector deficit by only # 1.6 bn over 10 years.

However, the study notes that Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia now have combined federal - provincial top tax rates rounding to 50 per cent, while New Brunswick's rounds to 55 per cent.

Yet it seems unlikely that the current government, which has been focused on increasing the tax rate on Canada's richest one per cent while at the same time putting in place measures to ensure that private corporations aren't inappropriately being used to sprinkle income and retain passive income, would actually consider lowering the inclusion rate, much less abolishing it altogether.