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Income Tax Bracket: Disposable Income

Government Spending Dept: Whatever voters and politicians decide government can or must do, government ultimately derives its money from the people, through taxation. If service demands or spending rise, taxes do too, reducing disposable income, and economic growth, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The government federal or provincial would institute a 0.10 per cent to 0.25 per cent annual reduction in the marginal tax rate at each income tax bracket. Government-revenue growth tracks the GDP growth rate in nominal unadjusted for inflation dollars in the four to five per cent range for the past several years, it is likely to continue and the road to long-term fiscal health doesn't have to be cobbled with radical policies and painful measures. Tax-cutting has been falsely portrayed as not allowing for healthy revenue growth for government to do the things it alone can do. In fact, there is a way to lower the tax burden without any reduction in government services. Both growth and tax revenue can increase. The means is gradual income-tax reduction. Since it is difficult to get large personal or corporate income-tax cuts enacted, and such cuts cause apprehension of potential curtailing of government spending or services, GITaR gives substantial, extended tax relief with scant harm to tax revenues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.