Research Question. Referencesmust be provided and use your own words.Three pagesmaximum.The text covers corporate taxation in Chapter 2 pages 46 to 50. Corporate taxes are a very sensitive and salient issue in corporate finance. You are provided with a paper (Corporate Tax Changes to Foster Economic Growth:) from the Business Council of Canada by Brian Kingston and published in the Canadian Tax Foundations Perspectives on Tax Law and Policy (June 22, 2020). You are to critically review this paperand may use the references listed (some are provided on the LMS) by answering:

a) How do taxesinteract with corporate financial performance?

b) What type of organization is the Business Council of Canada? Who do they represent?

c) What is the thesis statementof this article and to whomis it addressed? *

d) Summarize** the arguments made to support the thesis statement by Brian Kingston.

e) Critically evaluate*** the article and provide a final conclusion for your position on the article a reply to the BCC and Brian Kingston if you will.Did he succeed in his goal?

provided references:

1. Corporate Tax Changes to Foster Economic Growth. June 22, 2020.

https://thebusinesscouncil.ca/publications/corporate-tax-changes-to-foster-economic-growth

2. KPMG Corporate Tax Rates Substantively Enacted Income Tax Rates for Income Earned by a General Corporation2 for 2020 and BeyondAs at September 30, 202

https://home.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/ca/pdf/2020/10/substantively-enacted-income-taxrates-for-gen-corp-for-2020-and-beyond.pd

3. World Economic Forum The Global Competitiveness Report 2019 see pages 138-141.

4. Data Current Marginal tax rates by country -2013 to 2019: from Aswath Damodaran at the Stern School of Business.

* In formal academic and business writing the thesis statement of any work is most often stated in the last sentence of the third paragraph (or nearby). The thesis statement can be thought of as the purpose of the paper or what the writer wants to convince the reader about ** To summarize give a condensed version drawing out the main facts and omit superfluous information. The idea is to get your point across quickly and effectively. This skill demonstrates academic excellence as you provide value added for the reader in not wasting time and shows that you can produce what is important to your argument. In essence you have done the thinking. By giving the reader a lot of unprocessed or excess material you have not done much to demonstrate mastery of the subject or engage the reader *** To critically evaluate an article, give your verdict as to what extent a statement or findings within a piece of research are true, or to what extent you agree with them. Provide evidence taken from a wide range of sources which both agree with and contradict an argument. Come to a final conclusion, basing your decision on what you judge to be the most important factors and justify how you have made your choice. * In formal academic and business writing the thesis statement of any work is most often stated in the last sentence of the third paragraph (or nearby). The thesis statement can be thought of as the purpose of the paper or what the writer wants to convince the reader about ** To summarize give a condensed version drawing out the main facts and omit superfluous information. The idea is to get your point across quickly and effectively. This skill demonstrates academic excellence as you provide value added for the reader in not wasting time and shows that you can produce what is important to your argument. In essence you have done the thinking. By giving the reader a lot of unprocessed or excess material you have not done much to demonstrate mastery of the subject or engage the reader *** To critically evaluate an article, give your verdict as to what extent a statement or findings within a piece of research are true, or to what extent you agree with them. Provide evidence taken from a wide range of sources which both agree with and contradict an argument. Come to a final conclusion, basing your decision on what you judge to be the most important factors and justify how you have made your choice