Talk:Taxation in Canada

message: Dividends are indeed taxed in Canada, when the receivor is an individual. Inter-corporate dividends on the other hand are not taxed. Loomis51 21:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dividends

message: Article says taxes on income and dividends.  I know little about Canada but that would be highly unusual (in comparison with UK, SA, USA, French, German, Australian, NZ tax codes).  Company/corporation tax is usually on profits.  If any tax is paid on dividends it is a withholding tax (i.e. not a tax paid by the company but collected by the company and passed on to the tax man) so that the dividend is paid to shareholders with the personal tax on the dividend already (partly) paid.  Paul Beardsell 19:55, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Corporation Tax

message: (Disucssion transferred from User talk:Ground Zero.)
GST/HST are not sales taxes.  You will have to change this and please put back my other changes, which have nothing to do with your assertion.  May I enquire what education and exprience you have in the Canadian tax industry, if any.  Cordially SirIsaacBrock 23:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Consumption tax Cordially SirIsaacBrock 01:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Hello, if your interested in the tax industry and tax laws, please go to school as there is to much to teach here.  You can start by doing searches here 1 this is my final word on the matter.  Cordially SirIsaacBrock 11:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not cordial at all. You seem to be saying that GST is isn't a sales tax because you say it isn't. I have provided good reasons for saying it is, so I will make the change back, and post this conversation on thetalk page so that others can comment if they wish. Ground Zero | t 12:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GST/HST

message: IF I've understood correctly (which no one else should rely on!), Section 114 of the Tax Act is supposed to say that if you become a resident of Canada during the year, you're not supposed to be taxed on income earned prior to becoming a resident (and vice-versa if you start out a resident and become a non-resident). However I simply can't find in the forms or instructions where it allows you to make this claim. Do you just silently omit the income earned as a non-resident, or what?
By the way, as I read the material on the foreign tax credit, you *cannot* claim a foreign tax credit for taxes paid on income earned when you were a nonresident (oversimplified but I think that's what it comes down to). It seems to me that wouldn't make any sense if you were taxed in Canada on that income; while it might not result in double taxation strictly speaking (because you might be able to claim a credit against the Canadian taxes in the other country), it would be saying that Canada would have *extra* claim on that income, that it wouldn't have had if you'd been a Canadian resident at the time. That seems to fail the minimum rationality test. --69.158.27.235 16:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found it. See Publication T4055, "Newcomers to Canada", pages 11 and 12, available here --69.158.8.124 19:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Part-year residents 

message: The Tax in Canada is listed as 36.8% of the GDP, compared to the 35.7% for the US, but also qualified as "significantly higher".  Given Industrialised European nations are around 49%, is this really "significantly higher"? I'm going to put the actual numbers there, which I obtained from the Tax article, and if there's disagreement about that, please tell me off. WilyD 14:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening Paragraph

message: It is incorrect to say that sales taxes in Prince Edward Island are 10% + 6% = 16%. PST is applied to price + GST, therefore the total tax is 6% + [10% x (1+6%)] = 16.6%.
The same is true for Quebec: PST is applied to price + GST, so the total tax is 6% + [7.5% x (1+6%)] = 13.95%, not 13.5%. Ground Zero | t 23:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sales taxes

message: I have removed this mess from the opening paragraph so that we can work on it here and try to turn it into something that look like it belongs in an encyclopedia article:
:In total in 2006, $532 billion combined federal and provincial taxes / $1,417 B$ GDP (CDN) = 37.6% Canadian GDP goes to government expenditures, which can be compared to: $1,464 billion state and local taxes  + $2,567 billion federal expenditures  / $12,907 billion GDP ) = 31.2% of the United States GDP in 2006 going to government expenditures. Individual state and local taxes plus federal taxes range from 27.9% in Alaska to 35.9% in Connecticut.  Canadians get essentially all their medical insurance paid out of their taxes whereas in the U.S. only slightly more than half is paid by taxes. (Approximately 16% of US GDP goes to medical expenses 	)
To begin with, it looks like expenditures and revenues are confused here. they are not the same thing. Secondly, most of this belongs in a technical footnote, not the first paragrph of the article. Ground Zero | t 21:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening paragraph again

message: I moved the section on "income not taxed in Canada" to income taxes in canada because it applied only personal income taxes, and not to taxes generally. Ground Zero | t 21:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved to branch article

message: The section on income trust doesn't mention that, at the time Flaherty made the 31 Oct tax decision, there was also a lot of concern that the income trust structure discourages investment by large corporations. Flaherty said the purpose of the new taxes was not just to close the revenue hole, but also to discourage large corporations like BCE from turning into trusts (I think some economists said that, as a trust, BCE would invest less in infrastructure, r&d and stuff than if it continued to be a corporation). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.109.30.237 (talk) 19:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Income Trust taxes

message: There is no mention of what federal and provincial tax rates are; how they compare internationally; etc.  Yet there is room for a big whine about income trust taxation.  We need to start at the top; the basics; and prioritize the subjects.Deet 01:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: We need to work to improve this article

message: It seems there may be enough Canada articles to consider a taxation template such as  and .  Thoughts... Morphh  (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template

message: The lead states that "Currently, approximately 70% of the Canadian government's income comes from taxation, the rest from tariffs, fees, and investments."  I could see how investment is not taxation, but how is a tariff and fees not taxation.  The definition of tariff is a tax on goods upon importation.  Perhaps this is meant to state taxation on Canadian citizens?  The lead should also be expanded to about 2-3 paragraphs that summarize the article (see WP:LEAD).  Morphh  (talk) 15:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: Did the writer of this opening have a high level of insecurity?
:The level of Taxation in Canada is average among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
Why is this a good thing to begin the article with? --  timc  talk   20:44, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening paragraph 

message: There is a line regarding tax rates that says "However, a study conducted by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and released on November 8, 2007, found that the richest pay the lowest rates of all income groups." I took a skim through the paper and it doesn't seem to say that at all. Can someone elaborate on this claim? LexLata (talk) 17:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. That sentence appears in the section "Personal income taxes", but the cited CCPA paper (for example Figure 5) shows the rich pay a higher rate in that category. See also http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/01/12/william-watson-lets-hear-it-for-the-1/. The sentence is false. I'm removing it. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 21:34, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

message: Substituted at 07:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment