tasamy wrote: ↑ Dear friends,

It is tax season. I had always the impression that Canadians pay so much taxes. I have filed my taxes for the last four years in Canada. I would say every year I am surprised. I am thinking I am paying a low amount of taxes. I think I should have paid more. I am an immigrant and my salary in my home country before coming to Canada was $50/month and now I can make $300/month there. I am getting here in Canada more than 25x of these numbers. I think the average person would need $1000-$2000 per month and a child would need $500-$1000 per month. A family with 2 adults and two children would need around $36000-$72000. One adult is living alone, he would need $12000-$24000. I think these number should be the basis for the taxes. Families with a 100k income after RRSP contribution a 20k would pay $15000 only in taxes. Do you think they should have paid more taxes? A person living alone with 100k income who need only $24000 to live will pay $20000 after full RRSP contribution.. why he needs to save all that remaining money?

I think charity should be a new tax say 1%-3% of income, I do that without a law.



I am social and when I pay taxes I feel that I am helping a single mother mom, a poor person, a health care specialist, a homeless person .. I fully support paying more taxes to have better Canada where all citizens love and support each other ..



Your thoughts? Dear friends,It is tax season. I had always the impression that Canadians pay so much taxes. I have filed my taxes for the last four years in Canada. I would say every year I am surprised. I am thinking I am paying a low amount of taxes. I think I should have paid more. I am an immigrant and my salary in my home country before coming to Canada was $50/month and now I can make $300/month there. I am getting here in Canada more than 25x of these numbers. I think the average person would need $1000-$2000 per month and a child would need $500-$1000 per month. A family with 2 adults and two children would need around $36000-$72000. One adult is living alone, he would need $12000-$24000. I think these number should be the basis for the taxes. Families with a 100k income after RRSP contribution a 20k would pay $15000 only in taxes. Do you think they should have paid more taxes? A person living alone with 100k income who need only $24000 to live will pay $20000 after full RRSP contribution.. why he needs to save all that remaining money?I think charity should be a new tax say 1%-3% of income, I do that without a law.I am social and when I pay taxes I feel that I am helping a single mother mom, a poor person, a health care specialist, a homeless person .. I fully support paying more taxes to have better Canada where all citizens love and support each other ..Your thoughts?

Excellent post - couldn't agree more! I'm delighted to see that there are actually people out there with a heart that can see beyond their own pocketbook.I notice that someone is mentioning charitable donations as an alternative to the state redistributing wealth. Well, the problem with that is that then there is no system or planning behind the funding of social programs. If we ran a low-tax state where social programs depended on the benevolence of citizens, charitable organizations would have a hard time planning their operations since there would be no predictability or continuity in the funding. Social programs would be totally dependent on the whim of people in general and on whether the organizations manage to create catchy marketing campaigns.With government taking care of redistribution you get a certain fairness in the system. The greedy and selfish are actually forced to contribute to creating a liveable society for all.Now, that being said, are there huge issues with government spending and waste? Absolutely! But, let's fix it not scrap it. By scrapping it we create the US and anyone who has traveled to the poorer areas of New York, Chicago, Detroit, LA and Albany know what happens to a society that just rely on the benevolence of the well-to-do - the trickle down theory if you will. You can talk about laziness all you will, but spend a bit of time in a poor area and learn about the issues these people face and you will understand that laziness is the least of the problems. There's obviously just as many lazy people that are rich it's just that they happened to be born in a better part of town.