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Provincial income tax, municipal and regional property taxes An education tax is part of each household's property tax bill; funding of libraries is a municipal responsibility, except in remote and First Nations communities, for which the provincial or federal government supplies funding
Government revenue or national revenue is money received by a government from taxes and non-tax sources to enable it, assuming full resource employment, to undertake non-inflationary public expenditure. Government revenue as well as government spending are components of the government budget and important tools of the government's fiscal policy.
A formal system of equalization payments was first introduced in 1957. [7] [ Notes 1]. The original program had the goal of giving each province the same per-capita revenue as the two wealthiest provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, in three tax bases: personal income taxes, corporate income taxes and succession duties (inheritance taxes).
While intended to be a temporary measure at first, the federal government has since continued to levy personal income taxes, and are now the largest source of revenue for the federal government. [11] Both Inland Revenue and Customs were eventually merged into a single department, Customs and Excise, between 1918 and 1927.
Both the federal and provincial governments have imposed income taxes on individuals, and these are the most significant sources of revenue for those levels of government accounting for over 45% of tax revenue. The federal government charges the bulk of income taxes with the provinces charging a somewhat lower percentage, except in Quebec.
The public sector in many countries is organized at three levels: Federal or National, Regional (State or Provincial), and Local (Municipal or County). Partial outsourcing (of the scale many businesses do, e.g. for IT services) is considered a public sector model. A borderline form is as follows:
In Canada, the federal government makes payments to less wealthy Canadian provinces to equalize the provinces' "fiscal capacity" — their ability to generate tax revenues. The program began in 1957. [5] In 2016-2017, six provinces will receive $17.9 billion in equalization payments from the federal government. [6]
National income and output (billions of dollars) Period ending 2003 Gross national product: 11,063.3 Net U.S. income receipts from rest of the world: 55.2 U.S. income receipts: 329.1 U.S. income payments-273.9 Gross domestic product: 11,008.1 Private consumption of fixed capital: 1,135.9 Government consumption of fixed capital