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I was surfing the Internet one day and I noticed that Saskatchewan had unlocked their citizens locked in pensions 100% when they were transferred from a locked in retirement account ((L.I.R.A.)) into a Fund where they would be able to start collecting from . (( we will call the unlocked fund a registered retirement income fund R.R.I.F. )) The name varies a little bit Province to Province. I was surfing a bit more and I found that Manitoba had Unlocked 50% of the locked in funds in their province for their people. (( They are currently being lobbied to unlock the remaining 50% )) I then begin to think (( and that is hard to do sometimes )) Ontario being a progressive Province. Why is Ontario not unlocking these funds for their people. Considering that this is very unjust and cruel legislation keeping these funds Locked in when a person reaches Retirement age. Many of us were lead to belive when we contributed to the Defined Contribution Fund and reached the age of retirement that we could draw on our funds at will. Not be controlled by the Government and only allowed to remove basically the interest on the funds from 2.5% to 11% depending how good the fund was doing. This our OWN MONEY not Government Money. It is not OAS or CPP.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Introducing Jack Mintz

Professor Jack M. Mintz has just wrote an article about unlocking locked-in pensions in the Toronto National Post.
The article will follow this introduction.



Jack M. MintzProfessor of Business Economics
Degrees

PhD, University of EssexMA, Queen's UniversityBA, University of Alberta

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Positions HeldAcademic Positions
Current

Professor, Business Economics, Rotman School of Management
Current

Director, International Tax Program, Rotman School of Management
1999- 2006

President and CEO, C. D. Howe Institute
1993-1995

Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Management, University of Toronto
1984-1989

Associate Professor, Queen's University
1986

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University
1981, 1985

Visiting Researcher, CORE, Belgium
1978-1984

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University
Non-Academic Positions
1984-1985

Special Advisor to Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Tax Research, Department of Finance, Government of Canada
1974-1975, 1976

Consultant, Economic Council of Canada, Financial Markets Group
1971-1973

Budget Bureau and Fiscal Planning, Alberta Government

Selected Articles and Papers
"Income Trusts and Integration of Business and Investor Taxes: A Policy Analysis and Proposal," with Stephen Richardson, Canadian Tax Journal, 2006
"Assessing Ontario's Fiscal Competitiveness," with Duanjie Chen, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. XXX1, No. 1, 2005, 1-28
"Capital Mobility and Tax Competition," with Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005, 1-62
"The Optimal Threshold for VAT," with M. Keen, Journal of Public Economics, 88, 2004, 559-576
"Income Shifting, Investment, and Tax Competition: Theory and Evidence from Provincial Taxation in Canada ," with Michael Smart, Journal of Public Economics, 88 (6), 2004, 1149-78
"Taxing Financial Activity," Bulletin, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2004, 99-111
"Conduit Entities: Implications of Indirect Tax-Efficient Financing Structures for Real Investment," International Tax and Public Finance, August, 11(4), 2004, 419-434
"Income Trusts and Shareholder Taxation: Getting it Right," with Lalit Aggarwal, Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 52(3), 2004, 792-818
"Corporate Tax Harmonization in the European Union: The Use of Allocation," with J. Weiner, International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 10, No. 6, 2003, 695-712
"Tax-exempt Investors and the Asset Allocation Puzzle," with Michael Smart, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2002, 195-215
"An Exploration of Formula Apportionment in the European Union," with Joann Martens Weiner, European Taxation, Special Issue, Vol. 42, No. 8, 2002, 346-351
"Taxes and Fiscal Instruments in the New Economy," ISUMA, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2002, pp. 107-112
"Tax-exempt Investors and the Asset Allocation Puzzle, with Michael Smart ," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2002, pp. 195-215
Books/Chapters
Most Favored Nation: Building a Framework for Smart Economic Policy, C. D. Howe Institute, Policy Study 36, 2001
Dividing the Spoils: The Federal-Provincial Allocation of Taxing Powers with I. Ip, (Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute), 1992
Measuring the Rate of Return to Canadian Banking, Economic Council of Canada, 1978

Professional Affiliations/Memberships
2002- Corporate Director - Brookfield Asset Management
2004- Corporate Director - CHC Helicopter Corporation
2005- Corporate Director - Imperial Oil Limited
2003- Director, Ontario Financing Authority
2002- Director, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation
2004- Director, Sylvia Ostry Foundation
2002- Member, National Statistics Council, Statistics Canada

Academic/Professional Service
2006-

Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto
2006-

Co-chair, Research Committee, Canadian Tax Foundation
2005-Present

Editorial Board Member, Canadian Tax Journal
2003-Present

Editorial Board Member, International Tax and Public Finance
1999-Present

Research Fellow, CESifo, University of Munich, Germany
2004-2007

Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance
1993-Present

Editor-in-Chief, International Tax and Public Finance
1984-Present

Advisory Council Member, John Deutsch Institute
Present

Executive Member, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
1994-1999

Member, Scientific Committee, International Institute of Public Finance
1994-Present

Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Accounting Research
1993-2002

Editor-in-Chief, International Tax and Public Finance
1996-1997

Chair, Technical Committee on Business Taxation, Government of Canada
1993-1995

Associate Dean (Academic)
1987-1989

Director, John Deutsch Institute

Honors/Awards
2002

Winner Purvis Prize and runner-up Donner Book Prize for Most Favored Nation
1990-2006

Arthur Andersen Professor of Taxation and Deloitte & Touche LLP Professor of Taxation
1998

Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
1996-1997

Clifford Clark Visiting Economist, Department of Finance, Ottawa
1994

Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta
1993

Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Calgary
1992

Graduate Business Council, University of Toronto, Outstanding Contribution to the MBA Program

Research and Teaching InterestsTeaches a course in Economics and Supervises PhD students in Economics and Marketing. Research includes public economics, tax policy, corporate taxation and comparative tax systems.

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