Average TOTAL PERSONAL TAX rate including ALL forms of taxes and obligatory gov fees?
I'm wondering what the effective total tax rate is for the median person, including all forms of tax. This would aggregate all tax costs including:
Income tax
Sales tax (based on average consumption basket)
Land transfer tax (based on average revenue from this source per year, divided by working population)
Vehicle taxes
Property tax (again, expected property tax of the average or median home-owner living in the median home)
Other municipal taxes
Other provincial taxes
Other federal taxes
Other taxes, mandatory government fees, and miscellaneous not included above (things like eco fees, and other hidden/stealth taxes)
Add them all up, divide by average salary or something along those lines, to find the total tax burden (as a percentage of personal income) on the average person. I suspect this would need to be drilled down by province due to significant differences in provincial tax policy.
Since not everyone owns a car, our hypothetical Mr Average will probably own a fraction of a car, and pay the related taxes and mandatory fees on that fraction. Same idea for all other taxes and fees which are not applicable to the entire population; they will be spread to find an average value.
I am not sure it would be in government's best interest to publish such a number, because I have a feeling it ain't pretty. But before I go to the effort of calculating it myself I'd like to check if some organization of individual has already done it. Have checked Statistics Canada and some think tanks, and have found some useful data, but not the specific number I asked for above.
Is this number available somewhere? Please post exact link!
Income tax
Sales tax (based on average consumption basket)
Land transfer tax (based on average revenue from this source per year, divided by working population)
Vehicle taxes
Property tax (again, expected property tax of the average or median home-owner living in the median home)
Other municipal taxes
Other provincial taxes
Other federal taxes
Other taxes, mandatory government fees, and miscellaneous not included above (things like eco fees, and other hidden/stealth taxes)
Add them all up, divide by average salary or something along those lines, to find the total tax burden (as a percentage of personal income) on the average person. I suspect this would need to be drilled down by province due to significant differences in provincial tax policy.
Since not everyone owns a car, our hypothetical Mr Average will probably own a fraction of a car, and pay the related taxes and mandatory fees on that fraction. Same idea for all other taxes and fees which are not applicable to the entire population; they will be spread to find an average value.
I am not sure it would be in government's best interest to publish such a number, because I have a feeling it ain't pretty. But before I go to the effort of calculating it myself I'd like to check if some organization of individual has already done it. Have checked Statistics Canada and some think tanks, and have found some useful data, but not the specific number I asked for above.
Is this number available somewhere? Please post exact link!
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