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Income taxes in Canada constitute the majority of the annual revenues of the Government of Canada, and of the governments of the Provinces of Canada. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, the federal government collected just over three times more revenue from personal income taxes than it did from corporate income taxes .
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, the SCC declared that a government levy would be in pith and substance a tax if it was "unconnected to any form of a regulatory scheme." [5] The test for a regulatory fee set out in Westbank requires: a complete, complex and detailed code of regulation;
On 26 August 2011 Elections BC, the independent electoral overseer, announced that British Columbia voters defeated the new tax in the binding referendum conducted in June and July 2011 via a mail-in ballot. It was the first binding referendum on taxation in any state/provincial or national jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Nations. The ...
Marriage is a legal institution as well as an emotional one. It has implications that range from your tax status to debt, contracts, legal rights, medical oversight and much more. So when it comes ...
The Québec year-end shuffle refers to a tax planning structure that allows corporations to legally avoid paying taxes. A 2017 judgement in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Veracity Capital Corporation v. Canada held that the Québec shuffle "did not constitute an avoidance transaction" under British Columbia's General Anti-Avoidance ...
Legal separation describes a state that you can think of as being somewhere between marriage and divorce. The partners' union is not formally dissolved, although legal separation can be a step ...
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).
In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia—entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the "blended sales tax" (renamed to "harmonized sales tax") which would combine the 7% federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces; as part of this project, the PST portion ...