Still High: Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Low-Income Families

Finn Poschmann
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C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, 2008, issue 113

Abstract: Most federal and provincial government benefits for families with children are sharply income-tested. Reductions in these benefits, as family income rises, mean that low-income families face much higher effective tax rates than most others do, and deny such families the full benefit of the broad-based tax rate relief other Canadians have enjoyed in recent years.

Keywords: social policy; Marginal Effective Tax Rates; tax relief initiatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H5 H71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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