{"id":38350,"date":"2019-10-18T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38350"},"modified":"2019-10-18T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:02:36","slug":"politics-singhs-proposed-super-wealth-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-singhs-proposed-super-wealth-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: Singh&#8217;s proposed super-wealth tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about politics and the coming election: the tutor mentions the super-wealth tax, as he understands it.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWe are used to federal consumption tax (GST) and income tax, but what about tax on holdings? Perhaps Singh&#8217;s proposed &#8220;super-wealth&#8221; tax would be such.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I understand, Jagmeet Singh is proposing a 1% tax on the real estate, luxury items, and investments of Canadians whose total $20M or more. Around one Canadian per thousand, apparently, might be eligible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSuch a tax might seem like a gutsy idea, but who would it hurt? 1% of 20 million is 200,000&#8230;probably negligible to those who qualify to pay it.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chargebee.com\/docs\/canadian-gst-hst.html\">chargebee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/jagmeet-singh-ndp-super-wealth-tax-hamilton-1.5277626\">cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about politics and the coming election: the tutor mentions the super-wealth tax, as he understands it. We are used to federal consumption tax (GST) and income tax, but what about tax on holdings? Perhaps Singh&#8217;s proposed &#8220;super-wealth&#8221; tax would &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-singhs-proposed-super-wealth-tax\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics: Singh&#8217;s proposed super-wealth tax<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38352,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions\/38352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}