The federal government's system of tax benefits and deductions reinforces and even worsens gender inequality, with men taking 62 cents of every dollar the government spends on tax breaks, a new study argues. Of those 45 expenditures, only nine of them paid out more to women than men. "The tax system doesn't get nearly the attention that program spending does," Macdonald told HuffPost Canada. Macdonald said Canada's tax system would "likely" be more equitable to women if it wasn't so skewed towards tax relief for higher earners. The tax system doesn't get nearly the attention that program spending does.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2019 14:37 UTC