As this committee noted in its 1997 pre-budget report, a tax system not indexed against inflation increases the tax base, increases the average rate of tax applied to the tax base, and raises the marginal tax rate that individuals face with respect to employment and investment income.

The proportion of the company's base that a Member State can tax will be decided based on 3 equally weighted factors:

Canada is subsidizing job creation in a European country and boosting its tax base.

Effective administrative cooperation will be key to ensuring the effective protection of the exit State tax base.

The vicious circle I'm talking about is the one of higher debt leading to higher interest costs and higher taxes, those higher taxes eroding the base of taxation for a variety of reasons, like the underground economy discouraging work and saving and like the brain drain.

We said in the past and we repeat again: Funding at the federal level should include a number of components, such as increasing the CHST base and providing an annual escalator in order to stabilize the existing system; targeting new funds to meet urgent needs, such as technology needs and medical equipment needs; transitional funds to support appropriate system change to promote primary care reform, palliative care and enhanced population health initiatives; and introducing new federal government funding to ensure that all Canadians have access to a broader continuum of care, including home, community and facility-based long-term care ...[+++].