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Exposing Tax
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Evasion By Wes Gill
Tax evasion reportedly
costs the Canadian
government a whopping
$80 billion.
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n late 2011, the Tax Justice Network—a
coalition of researchers and activists—released
The Cost of Tax Abuse: A Briefing Paper on the
Cost of Tax Evasion Worldwide, which estimated
the total cost of global tax evasion at $3.2 trillion
or five per cent of the world’s gross domestic
product (GDP).
The organization estimated the impact on
Canada alone was approximately $80 billion.
The problem was large enough that, as part
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