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President Emmanuel Macron of France named the choices less than three weeks after the previous government collapsed. He had already picked François Bayrou as prime minister. President Emmanuel Macron of [...]

The French government is seeking deep spending cuts and higher taxes in an effort to tame its ballooning debt and deficit. The French government on Thursday sought to head off [...]

The French government, which missed a deadline this week to show how it would cut its debt and deficit, is struggling to meet fiscal requirements set by the E.U. France's [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, RACHELLE YOUNGLAI OTTAWA, TORONTO -- Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is pushing back on criticism from doctors who oppose Ottawa's capital-gains tax increases, saying it will also raise [...]

Byline: DAVID JONES Economics consultant and a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics Federal housing policy - the number one government priority in Budget 2024 - is unequivocal [...]

Byline: CHRISTIAN HENSLEY Canadian investor who has managed significant asset portfolios for some of Canada's largest pension plans, and serves as a senior adviser to several family offices and institutional [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The frantic reaction to capital-gains tax changes announced in the recent federal budget demonstrates how hard it is to agree on what wealth means. The tax [...]

Byline: JOHN RUFFOLO A 30-year veteran of Canada's tech investment scene, founder of Maverix Private Equity and co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators It's fair to say that Canadians [...]

Byline: LUCY HARGREAVES Vice-president of corporate affairs and climate policy at Patch, a carbon-markets startup. She is on the board of Oceans North, a non-profit organization that supports marine conservation. [...]

Byline: RITA TRICHUR; Staff The Liberal government is moving into the 21st century and belatedly giving banks an important tool to foil financial criminals. As outlined in the federal budget, [...]

Byline: BEENA GOLDENBERG CEO at Organigram Canada's legal cannabis journey has been turbulent to say the least. What once seemed like a promising landscape of opportunity has evolved into a [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY; Staff Some industries say they are disappointed and confused by the federal government's decision to leave them out of a new tax break for small businesses that [...]

Byline: LISA LALANDE CEO of Century Initiative You can't win a war if you're unaware you're in the fight. And right now, unbeknownst to many, Canada is fighting a global [...]

Byline: DON DRUMMOND, WILLIAM ROBSON Don Drummond is Stauffer-Dunning fellow at Queen's University and fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, where William Robson is chief executive officer. Federal Finance Minister [...]

Byline: CARRIE TAIT, ALANNA SMITH CALGARY, EDMONTON -- Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen said he is comfortable with the amount of money his government earmarked to cover expenses [...]

War, high interest rates and slowdowns in major trade partners are trimming tax revenue and forcing the government in Paris to scale back. France is entering an era of belt-tightening, [...]

The News Germany plans to slash social benefits and rein in government debt but increase the amount spent on the military in 2024, according to a federal budget approved Wednesday [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS; THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Anew rail shipping rule is poised to drive up inefficiency and consumer costs. Or it will drive them straight down. It depends [...]

Israel's prime minister has long advocated a small state, free markets and benefit cuts. But his new budget is heavy on subsidies for the ultra-Orthodox community, whose political support he [...]

Local governments are sinking further into debt, but after years of talk, officials have yet to introduce a real estate tax. Across China, many local governments are on the brink [...]

Byline: Paul Kane House Republicans, after months of pledging to devolve power to legislative committees conducting business out in the open, have reverted to the tradition of working behind closed [...]

Byline: RHYS KESSELMAN Professor emeritus at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. His study is published at Finances of the Nation. The recent federal budget delivered on [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON; Staff Ottawa's budget plans have moved on from the COVID-19 pandemic, but its finances are still nursing the hangover. The biggest source of that headache over the [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY; Staff The federal government said it has worked out a deal with Visa and Mastercard to lower the transaction fees that small businesses pay every time a [...]

Byline: IAIN BOEKHOFF; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government unveiled its 2023 budget on Tuesday with promised spending on the climate and dental care, and increasing taxes on higher-income Canadians. [...]

Byline: MERRAN SMITH, TREVOR MELANSON Merran Smith is the chief innovation officer and founder and Trevor Melanson is the communications director of Clean Energy Canada, a think tank at Simon [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government promised in its 2023 budget to address 'unacceptable flight delays, long lineups at airports, and mishandled baggage' that affected Canadians last [...]

Byline: STEFANIE MAROTTA; Staff Ottawa is planning to raise billions of dollars from banks and insurers through a change in tax rules on dividends that financial institutions receive from Canadian [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There were a few things Chrystia Freeland had to do in her 2023 budget and one thing she really wanted to do. That one thing the [...]

Byline: JANICE DICKSON; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government says it is committed to improving the lives of women, girls and vulnerable populations around the world - but did not [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE; Staff OTTAWA -- Canada is lending another $2.4billion to Ukraine to help the beleaguered country cope with the economic fallout from Russia's military assault, bringing total support [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- A dental-care plan for up to nine million uninsured Canadians is costing almost twice as much as originally planned by the Liberal government, and [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY; Staff OTTAWA -- Canada's business leaders are urging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to table an early budget in 2023 to provide clarity on promised tax measures aimed [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Britain is staring down the barrel of a self-inflected economic catastrophe. This week saw the pound fall to an all-time low against the dollar amid a mass [...]

Byline: TIM CESTNICK TAX MATTERS You may recall that the 2022 federal budget introduced a new type of registered savings plan, called the Tax-Free First Home Savings Account (FHSA). On [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian government has put Hockey Canada under the microscope. Sports Minister Pascale StOnge has ordered a financial audit of an out-of-court settlement involving [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI; Staff Home builders are warning that Ottawa's new $4-billion fund to help municipalities move faster on new home approvals faces significant hurdles in speeding up the pace [...]

Byline: ERICA ALINI; Staff A day after the 2022 federal budget revealed more details about a new tax-advantage account to help first-time home buyers save for down payments in an [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff The Trudeau government plainly intends this budget to be taken as the moment it pivoted from 'stimulus' to 'investment,' or from boosting demand, the total amount [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY; Staff OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says there are still many details to work out with the provinces before Ottawa can deliver on the $5.3-billion dental [...]

Byline: Rachel Siegel and Alyssa Fowers WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden unveiled a nearly $6 trillion budget plan on Monday that seeks to slim future borrowing, increase spending for defense [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein WASHINGTON -- The White House will unveil a new minimum tax targeting billionaires as part of its 2023 budget Monday, proposing a direct tax on the richest [...]