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A Sales Tax for Alberta: Why and How

2022· book· en· W4281642557 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
Robert L. Ascah

Bibliographic record

VenueAthabasca University Press eBooks · 2022
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of AlbertaGovernment of Alberta
KeywordsSales taxBusinessFinanceAd valorem taxDouble taxation

Abstract

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Alberta is undergoing a painful economic transition, and this book is well positioned to inform some of the critical debates concerning the province's financial future.Until about 2013, Alberta's economy had been outperforming the rest of Canada's for so long that it seemed a given.In 2005, TD Economics reported that GDP per capita in the Calgary-Edmonton corridor was a "gigantic" 47 percent above the Canadian average, as well as substantially above the average in the United States. 1 By the end of 2011, and despite the lingering effects of the global financial crisis, weekly earnings in Alberta had risen 4.5 percent over the previous year and wholesale trade was up by 17.1 percent, while unemployment was the lowest in the country-even though Alberta's population had climbed over the past year at a rate 70 percent above the national average. 2 The fall from these economic heights was dramatic.Alberta's GDP peaked in 2014, shrank over the next two years, recovered partially from 2017 to 2019, only to drop again in 2020 to a new low.3 Calgary and Edmonton vied with St. John's, Newfoundland, for the cities with the worst unemployment rates in the country.Population growth slowed markedly as interprovincial migration turned negative.4 Provincial finances faced an equivalent upheaval.In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the Alberta government had no net debt, and its AAA credit rating was the best among Canada's provinces.5 A decade later, the November 2020 fiscal update forecast an annual deficit of $21.3 billion.Total taxpayersupported debt was expected to reach $97.4 billion by 2021 and soar to https://

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.052
Threshold uncertainty score0.262

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0070.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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