Revenue's Web site now has full details of personal income tax statistics for the 1997 tax year for the country as a whole and for each province.
Some details are fascinating.
The table shows that they accounted for 62 percent of all taxpayers with taxable dividends and 63 percent of capital gains recipients, and 21 and 19 percent, respectively, of all such income and gains. The details of taxpayers and their income and tax positions provide useful statistics for anyone interested in the impact of the tax system on Canadians and the national economy. The numbers are also valuable indicators of the economic life of individual Canadians and of the nation as a whole. The prevalence of dividends and capital gains at relatively low income levels underscores the importance of the special tax treatment accorded such income and the extent to which share ownership extends to a significant proportion of the total population.