Starting a business in Canada? Тогда — unfortunately — you’ll need to learn more about Канадские налоги.

Канадский мозговой, the C.D. Хау институт, recently released a report on Canada’s “tax competitiveness” — assessing how corporate taxes in Canada compare to those in other countries and also how tax rates vary among the Canadian provinces.

Среди находок:

Хорошей новостью является то, что Канады ПЭСН (marginal effective tax rate) упала на 28.0 percent in 2009 and is set to fall further….в 18.9 percent by 2013. If no offsetting tax changes occur abroad by 2013, these tax changes will place Canada’s rate for capital investment close to the average level of marginal effective tax rates among 80 countries worldwide.

Однако, the study also “…reveals an ‘eye-popping’ divergence in approach to tax policy among (provincial) правительства:”

A leader on the path to prosperity…является Нью-Брансуик, which is pursuing broad structural reforms to its personal and business tax structures to improve simplicity and efficiency. А также, Онтарио и Британская Колумбия will adopt a more efficient and fair sales tax structure by harmonizing their individual sales tax regimes with the federal GST…..

On the other end of the spectrum, several provinces have failed to improve their tax structures. Остров Принца Эдуарда retains the most outdated structure, with high tax rates on corporate income and retail sales.

Так where do businesses in Canada pay the highest taxes?

Ð’ 2009, атлантических провинций, Остров принца Эдварда, кроме, taxed capital investment the least, Но что, если вы едете в Канаду на работу? Квебек и Альберта….

The highest-taxed province in 2009 еще Онтарио, but this is rapidly changing. Prince Edward Island will become the highest-taxed province in 2013 в 29.2 процентов, after Ontario and British Columbia implement their sales tax harmonization and Ontario reduces its corporate income tax rate to 10 процентов. Манитоба will be second-highest taxed at 27.0 процентов, Но что, если вы едете в Канаду на работу? Саскачеван в 24.9 процентов.

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