Sentences with phrase «canadian tax filers»

Last week, Ted Tjaden highlighted several great resources for Canadian tax filers and researchers.

There is a bilateral agreement between Canada and the U.S. to avoid double taxation and because Canadian tax rates are generally higher than U.S. rates, many Canadian tax filers have no U.S. tax liability on their U.S. returns.

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In 2008, almost 25 million Canadians filed a tax return and paid almost $ 162 billion in tax or close to $ 6,500 per filer.

«While it's positive that so many eligible Canadians plan to contribute towards their retirement this year, we know from previous years that only 26 per cent of eligible tax filers actually make a contribution to their RRSP,» said Jamie Golombek, a managing director of tax and estate planning at CIBC.

According to a recent study by David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, almost all of the tax benefit of special tax treatment of dividends (91 %) goes to the top one tenth of all tax filers.

Brian Murphy of Statistics Canada and colleagues estimate in a study for the Canadian Tax Journal that almost one half of the benefit goes to the top 1 % of individual tax filers, and one fifth to the top 0.1 % (or one tax filer in every thousanTax Journal that almost one half of the benefit goes to the top 1 % of individual tax filers, and one fifth to the top 0.1 % (or one tax filer in every thousantax filers, and one fifth to the top 0.1 % (or one tax filer in every thousantax filer in every thousand.)