NEWS WATCH
Members of TrustInvestor.com, including individual investors, young and old, bankers, brokers, traders, fund managers and income trust issuers, developed a petition to the government in response to its freeze on income tax rulings and comments subsequent to the release of the Department of Finance Consultation Paper on Flow-through Entitites including Income Trusts and Limited Partnerships.
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.