taxing expat Canadians
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Tokyo, 2010.03.12
There's a movement in certain conservative circles in Canada to introduce taxation on the global income of expatriate Canadians.
I'm not against it, to tell you the truth. Especially if it will cause an improved sense of what it means to hold a Canadian passport for the 2.7 million Canadians who live abroad.
But I don't like the way that the matter is being handled by those conservative supporters of the concept. They seem to be painting us as a bunch of tax dodgers and crooks. I've got a fair bit to say on the subject, and I wrote it all in an article on taxing expat Canadians.