What is the Business Transfer Tax and why it matters
The article explains BTT as a proposed tax replacing or supplementing the federal sales tax. It would apply a percentage of each firm’s sales minus purchases, broadening the tax base to include services. It aims to align corporate and personal rates with the United States but would affect many products and services.
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Ottawa
Feds
United States
Small firms fear burden from business tax plan
The piece argues a business tax like a backloaded tax on services would cost jobs, raise costs, and push work to do it yourselfers. It cites cases of an electrical contractor and a hair dresser, plus CDIB survey results, warning of disruption and deficit concerns. It notes tourism and local projects in Roblin and mentions historical observations from Alexander Henry the Younger.
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Jane Brown
Jane
Jim Doe
BTT
Jim
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
CFIB
John Bulloch
Parkland Map Project Aims to Link Saskatchewan and Manitoba
A new professionally created map of the Parkland region is being produced to strengthen ties between Saskatchewan and the northern United States, promoting the Parkland and Manitoba as a whole. The project notes a need for a high quality map for regional development.
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Saskatchewan
United States
Manitoba
Footnote to History on Plains Buffalo Decline
Will Koroluk recounts the buffalo’s role as meat source for Plains Indians and traders. He explains how market demand for robes and sportsmen’s predation disrupted balance, noting winter freezes prairie fires and predators as additional losses. The piece surveys annual drownings of buffalo along rivers in spring.
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North Saskatchewan
Qu’Appelle
Saskatchewan
Alexander Henry the Younger
Red River Valley
Red River
Will Koroluk
Plains
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