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Every province except Alberta has implemented either a provincial sales tax or the Harmonized Sales Tax. The federal GST rate is 5 percent, effective January 1, 2008. The territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut have no territorial sales taxes, so only the GST is collected.
Toggle Fuel tax rates across Canada subsection. 1.1 Gasoline. 1.2 Diesel. 1.3 Notes. ... Diesel Fuel Taxes by Province/Territory (Effective April 1, 2024 ) Government
There are also provincial dividend tax credits at different rates in different provinces. For dividends from other Canadian corporations, i.e., "eligible dividends", the gross-up is 38% and the dividend tax credit is 15.0198% (for 2017), [18] reflecting the higher corporate income tax rate paid by larger corporations. Provincial and territorial ...
The tax is a 5% tax imposed on the supply of goods and services that are purchased in Canada, except certain items that are either "exempt" or "zero-rated": For tax-free — i.e., "zero-rated" — sales, GST is charged by suppliers at a rate of 0% so effectively there is no GST collected.
Personal tax collection resumed by province Corporate tax collection resumed by province Corporate tax collection resumed by federal government British Columbia: 1876: 1901: 1941 [it 1] Alberta: 1932 [it 2] 1932 [it 2] 1941 [it 1] 1981: Saskatchewan: 1932: 1932: 1941 [it 1] Manitoba: 1923: 1924: 1938 [it 3] Ontario: 1936 [it 4] 1932 [it 5] 1936 ...
Quebec's high provincial taxes account for its budget surplus, although without equalization Quebec would have had a deficit. [28] Quebec residents pay the highest provincial tax in the country but the lowest federal tax. [41] Quebec residents pay 16.5% less federal income tax annually than other Canadian provinces due to the Quebec Abatement. [42]
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 ...
In 1995, Ralph Klein's government introduced the Alberta Taxpayer Protection Act [10] which legislated any general provincial sales tax be subject to a referendum. [11] The legislation that prevents the introduction of a sales tax without a referendum was expanded in 2023 by UCP Premier Danielle Smith to include increases to personal and corporate tax rates.