Financial Post Article Rating

Opinion: Don't let pension plans use their tax status to take over corporate Canada

Jan 12, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    5% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In making acquisitions in private markets (or acquiring public companies that become private), they can lend internal debt to the operating taxable company, which can write off the resulting interest to eliminate corporate tax payments, which also isn't taxed when it is paid back to the (tax-exempt) pension funds to which it is owed.
46% : Giving Canadian assets this special tax lustre amounts to political interference in pension fund portfolio decisions, which could lead to suboptimal returns less likely to cover the funds' obligations.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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