Jonathan Rhys Kesselman - Selected Publications

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Books

Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, (co-editor with David A. Green), Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, 492 pages; awarded the Canadian Economics Association's 2007 Doug Purvis Prize for best Canadian economic policy research in 2006.

Book Chapters

"Expanding Canada Pension Plan Retirement Benefits: Assessing Big CPP Proposals," SPP Research Papers, University of Calgary, School of Public Policy, October 2010 (31 pages).

"Payroll Tax, GST, and Cash Flow Tax: Reforming State Indirect Taxes," in Rick Krever, Chris Evans, and John Head, eds., Australia's Future Tax System: The Prospects After Henry (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2010), pp. 273-304

"Dimensions of Inequality in a Just Society," (with David A. Green), in David A. Green and Jonathan R. Kesselman, eds., Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, pp. 1-32.

"Taxation Impacts on Inequality in Canada: Methodologies and Findings," (with Ron Cheung), in David A. Green and Jonathan R. Kesselman, eds., Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, pp. 347-416.

Articles in Journals

"Income Splitting for Two-Parent Families: Who Gains, Who Doesn't, and at What Cost?" with Alexandre Laurin, Commentary No. 335, October 2011 (20 pages) (Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute).

"Consumer Impacts of BC's Harmonized Sales Tax: Tax Grab or Pass-Through?" Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 37, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 139-162.

"The Harmonized Sales Tax—Through an Economic Prism," Policy Perspectives, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2010), pp. 1-8.

"Tax Free Savings Accounts in a Consumption-Based Personal Tax," Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3, (2009), pp. 533-562.

"Income Splitting and Joint Taxation of Couples: What's Fair?" IRPP Choices, Vol. 14, No. 1 (February 2008), pp. 1-54, Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.