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Old 08-18-2009, 03:57 PM   #898
yads
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From here
Total Income Taxes in 2005 were $153 billion
This link tells me that Canada collected 3.5% of their GDP in corporate taxes in that same year so that would be almost $48 billion. (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/canadagdp.htm)

I couldn't find any conclusive data on how much tax is paid by the various income levels. In the US the top 1% paid 34.4% of the federal tax share in 2001. If we assume similar numbers in Canada in 2005 (probably a poor assumption, but I would wager the numbers are close). That gives us $36 billion (34.4% of the remaining $105 billion).

So in total corporations and the super rich paid $84 billion in income taxes which is about 55% of the total income tax revenue.
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