
COPY OF LETTER TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
I am writing to you as the volunteer President of a not-for-profit, non-partisan research and education organization, iTrust Institute. The Institute was formed in response to the Department of Finance Consultation on Flow-through Entities in 2005 in the interest of supporting informed policy formulation and decision-making.
iTrust Institute is studying the key features, perceived potential & benefits of income trusts starting from the premise that:
Equities managed and structured like income trusts to flow net gains through to owners by way of frequent and regular distributions of cash can offer superior rates of overall return, support market growth, enhance economic productivity and contribute to growth of the tax base with less risk than other equities given honest managers and a fully competitive market supported by open communications.
We will test this notion and explore related questions.