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Provincial sales taxes or PST (French: Taxes de vente provinciale - TVP), levied by the provinces. Goods and services tax or GST (French: Taxe sur les produits et services - TPS) / Harmonized sales tax or HST (French: Taxe de vente harmonisée - TVH), a value-added tax levied by the federal government. The GST applies nationally.
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 ...
The Canada Social Transfer is the Canadian government's transfer payment programme in support of post-secondary education, social assistance and social services, including early childhood development and early learning and childcare.
Similar to the old PST, the following are not taxable under the new PST: the sales of real property such as residential housing or commercial real estate; admissions, registrations, and memberships; professional services (other than legal services); and transportation fares (e.g. bus, train, ferry, airline).
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.
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada also performed an independent audit, and published a report in 2018 that concluded that the Phoenix project “was a incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight”, [2] and that Phoenix Executives did not heed warnings from the Miramichi Pay Centre, costing the federal government ...
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The federal government charges the bulk of income taxes with the provinces charging a somewhat lower percentage, except in Quebec. Income taxes throughout Canada are progressive with the high income residents paying a higher percentage than the low income. [31]