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Originally Posted by Leondros
If you want to talk about effective tax rates sure, but that is still 20% higher than the average Canadian:
Individual Canadian tax filers spent, on average, 11.7% of their modified total income on federal and provincial/territorial income taxes.
Effectively that is the exact same delta (~20%) on the marginal tax brackets between average and 1%.
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OK, so can we accept that my objection to saying people don't actually pay the marginal rate, and actually pay an effective rate significantly lower is correct? and I'll retract "probably pay less than you or I" which is more of a US thing, I think.
Sorry, this just pisses me off because it's the kind of shallow scary number manipulation the Frasier Institute does when they go on the radio with Danielle Smith to "prove" we pay more taxes than Americans.