More 2010 budget coverage
March 5, 2010.
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Flaherty re-announces $3.2 billion in personal income tax relief billion : RDSP revamped and tweaks to the Universal Child Care Benefit also included in budget.
FROM MONEYSENSE.CA
The government delivers an empty, almost flippant budget: Andrew Coyne: “One is surprised, by how unconcerned the Conservatives are about the state of the country’s finances”
FROM MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE
Budget 2010: Peering into tomorrow, blind as a bat : On debt and deficit reduction, Flaherty is the guy who swiped one-third of his bragging rights from the Liberals. Watch him.
FROM MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE
Tories cut back on growing aid to the world’s poor: And — after Afghanistan — to the military spending.
FROM MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE
Tory deficit: Slashing plan needs some luck to meet targets: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's plan to largely get rid of the deficit in five years depends on uninterrupted economic growth and lays out targets for spending restraint without detailing how to hit them.
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
Ottawa goes after stock option loophole that allows double deduction: Ottawa is closing a lucrative tax loop hole for companies and executives who receive stock options that will bring in an extra $270 million for government coffers in the upcoming fiscal year.
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
Budget sets new bank rules for cheques and disputes: New regulations will set a maximum four-day hold period on cheques.
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
Full budget text: Read the entire budget from the Department of Finance.
FROM DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
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