Laut einer Studie, die vor Steuererhöhungen warnt, zahlen die besten 20 % der kanadischen Einkommensempfänger mehr als die Hälfte aller Steuern
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/top-20-of-canadian-earners-pay-more-than-half-of-all-taxes-says-study-warning-against-increasing-rates
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Interesting, but not surprising.
I was kind of surprised that the top 20% are families earning $270,472.00 or more and the bottom 20% are families earning $64,068.00 or less.
Frankly, I thought both of these would be lower.
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Apparently bracketed taxation works as intended.
„the people who have most of the money pay the most taxes“
Yeah, no shit. If anything they should be paying far more
Everyone going to be arguing about marginal rate when the truth is the top wealthiest Canadians ain’t paying income tax on much (if any) of their money.
Small businesses are often tax havens for the ultra wealthy. Capital gains are taxed at a lower rate. You can borrow against assets. Offshore accounts. Etc etc probably some shit I don’t know about.
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I don’t need tax rates to go up, I just need tax loopholes to close.
This would effectively BE a huge tax increase on the rich.
The top 20% holds 69% of the total wealth. So their taxes are too low.
Also interesting how the National Post arbitrarily choosing the top 20th percentile as a way to dilute how much wealth is trickling upwards even from those *within* the top 20%:
– The top 20% holds 69% of the total wealth in the country.
– The top 10% hold 53% of the country’s wealth,
– And the top 1% holds 25% of the country’s wealth.
So here’s the breakdown:
80th – 90th wealth percentile: holds 16% of Canada’s wealth
90th – 99th percentile: holds 28% of Canada’s wealth
Top 1%: Holds 25% of Canada’s wealth
https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/RP-2526-009-S–estimating-top-tail-family-wealth-distribution-in-canada-2025-update–estimation-extremite-superieure-distribution-patrimoine-familial-canada-mises-jour-2025
That paints a picture of wealth accumulation at the top. If it was more evenly distributed through wages then you’d see different outcomes. This is not the “gotcha” they might think it is. To me it just means the bottom 80% are too poor to pay.
Right because collecting $10,000 from someone making $40,000 is going to wreck havoc on their life.
Collecting $60,000 form someone making $200,000 doesn’t really change their life at all.
Collecting $400,000 from someone making $1,000,000 annually still lets them make GENERATIONAL wealth in a handful of years.
Taxes in a progressive system should be based on EQUAL PAIN, not based on flat %.
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The vast majority of people who want to raise taxes on the rich are talking about the top 1%. It’s extremely telling that American-owned news media like natpo tries to massively expand this range to make nonsensical strawman arguments instead of arguing against increasing taxes on the top 1%, who often make the majority of their income in capital gains and therefor pay much lower tax rates than groups like doctors or skilled professionals in the top 10-20%.
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Here’s the report being referenced by the Fraser Institute, which isn’t behind a paywall:
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2026-07/measuring-progressivity-in-canadas-tax-system-2026.pdf
Nice infographics, but also not really a surprise they’re pitching for lower taxes for the highest earning (and I assume wealthiest) among us.
The Fraser Institute and National Post tag-teaming us with cherrypicked stats has become a cherished Canadian humiliation ritual.
Some great talking points in here.
I think a question we should be asking is how do we get other people’s incomes higher so they can contribute more. Less corporate greed? Better training opportunities for lower incomes for careers in demand?
The top 20% of earners should be paying the lions share, though? They earn the lions share. They’re comparing families that make 260K to families that make 60K. Of course the burden should be on those making 260. Besides, when people say “tax the rich” they aren’t even talking about the top 20%, they’re talking about the top 5%. The top 1%. We’re talking about billionaires. And we aren’t just talking about income, we’re talking about wealth. We’re talking about closing tax loopholes so that the ultra rich can’t get richer and richer even if they show no “income” at all.
Saying “the rich already pay more so taxes shouldn’t be raised” is not a good argument.
What percentage of earnings do the top 20% get? That’s the next question to be asked before talking about rates and the like.
no shit, they’re counting top *20*% all they’ve really found is that upper middle class people pay the bulk of the taxes
their own report actually reveals the need to tax the richest more:
> the top 20 per cent of income-earning families pay nearly two-thirds (65.3 per cent) of the country’s personal income taxes and more than half (58.3 per cent) of total taxes.
gee i wonder why the group that consists of working people and ultra wealthy pay more in income tax than total tax! what could *possibly* be the cause of that? who isn’t paying their fair share here?
I currently earn in the top 20% and I am okay with this. After tax, we are still living better than when I earned in the bottom 20%.
We should not entertain the thought of transferring more of the tax burden to the segments who are least able to afford it. If anything, I would like to see the top 1% pay even more tax.
That’s why the tax should be on capital, not labor.
The majority of wealth is generated by using local resources which belong to, and also maintained by Canadians.
And I’m not talking about some small trading accounts, I’m talking about corporations like Bell, Rogers, Loblaws which use canadian taxpayer dollars to build some infrastructure and then charge back canadians for the services
I suspect the top 20% of Canadian earners make more than half of all the income in Canada, so what’s the problem?