Maintaining an overall low rate of taxation with many more brackets at the top-end of the spectrum would help ensure a fairer share of revenues paid to the federal government.

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Like most tax debates since 2001, the one that gripped much of the business community at the end of 2012, boiled down to conflict over the upper individual income tax brackets and the impact that any increase to those rates would have on small businesses.

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