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After almost three years of study costing taxpayers $8.6 million, the Commission has delivered its thoughts on how the tax system Can be made fair. Amongst its 135 recommendations, recommendations, the Commission wants local property tax exemptions for cemeteries cemeteries eliminated. It also suggests Rae sell his provincial counterparts and the Chretien government on the idea of a national wealth tax of 30% on all estates over $1 million. And on and on its goes, in all 1,114 pages of the Commission's report. report. The essence of its theme is to redistribute redistribute the tax burden, by soaking the so-called rich who can afford to pay more. The rich, in its eyes are families with an income over $50,000. In a move similar to letting a drunk go on a shopping spree in a state-owned liquor store, it feels Ottawa Ottawa should give Ontario the power to set its own personal income tax rate structure. As part of its "deep pockets" mentality, mentality, the number of tax brackets would be increased from 3 to 10. And the top marginal rate for combined combined federal/provincial taxes hiked to the 60% mark. The only enlightened part of the Commission's study is what it calls the cornerstone of its recommendations recommendations - property tax reform. Market Value Assessment, once and for all, would be trashed as the standard for property tax assessment. But its replacement - unit value assessment - would only replace one bad system with another. In place of basing assessment on the price a property would sell for in the open market, it proposes moving to a scheme which would incorporate the rental value of the property. By rejecting rejecting the more straightforward, simpler simpler method of pure unit assessment which would use only the physical characteristics of the property, the assessment assessment system will continue to be highly subjective and costly to administer. administer. Even the Commission's most prominent and welcomed recommendation, recommendation, which would shift the cost of general welfare and education from property taxes to the province, falls short of what taxpayers have been seeking. Local school boards would still be able to use property taxes for "discretionary" spending to the tune of 10% of the total funding they get from the province. And businesses would still get hit with a property tax for education, except it would be paid to the province. And, of the large majority of Ontarians Ontarians who love to hate the G.S.T., the Commission suggests pouring salt in a still festering wound which has given rise to an explosive growth in the underground economy. Under the guise of a national sales tax, the scope of the provincial retail sales tax would effectively be broadened to cover a whole range of goods and services which are now exempt. While harmonization of the two consumption taxes would eliminate the costly duplication of administration, administration, the bottom line is the province gets to milk the cash cow for even more. Fairness as the Commission would describe it has nothing to do with equality. Nor docs it mean reducing reducing the suffocating cost of government. government. Fairness in its mind is penalizing penalizing you for making more than the other guy. And that says a lot about the virtue of striving for a better education education and the ethic of hard work. 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