How to Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness

Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2002. Near fine! Paper bound, 1st edition, Pp157. Includes references and sources. Owner name top of half title page else an unmarked copy in fine condition. Scarce! 235 grams. When the Auditor-General reported in 1996 that a wealthy Canadian family had been able to move $2 billion out of the country tax-free, the story became a media sensation. Yet it was not, one would have predicted, a story with legs. Only the naive would think the rich and well-connected do not strike behind-closed-doors deals all the time. Only the foolish would believe that anything could be done about it. The money was gone and the story would soon blow over. And it probably would have, if a quixotic social justice coalition had not taken on the issue -- and the government. Project Loophole was born. With almost no money, and experts saying there was no chance of ever even getting the case heard, Project Loophole took the federal government to court to try to force it to make one of Canada's wealthiest families do what most Canadians do every year: pay their taxes. The remarkable five-year adventure that followed provided an unprecedented view into the unfairness of Canadian tax laws, and how power operates at the highest levels.