“IT boasts several key performance innovations. The four-panel construction creates a surface that provides optimal in-flight stability by ensuring sufficient, evenly distributed drag as it travels through the air. Additionally, embossed icons elevate grip in variable conditions. Connected technology is enhanced by a state-of-the-art 500Hz motion sensor chip that delivers insight into every element of its movement. This technology sends precise data in real time, enhancing decision-making…” Our security-obsessed minds could be forgiven for perceiving this lightly abridged excerpt as describing some weapons system. It is not.

The title of this piece is a deliberate play on ‘tax net’ that most non-salaried segments of the economy continue to slip through successfully. The same old four million or so individuals and entities already in the income tax net get squeezed more and more every year, while the rulers and their backers in the IFIs continue to chant the mantra of widening the tax base. One of the biggest national spectacles, the federal and provincial budgets that follow, is scheduled to unfold soon after one false start.

A much bigger, international spectacle that happens only every four years is set to make not one or two but........

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