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For details of all sales taxes applicable across Canada, see Sales taxes in Canada. The harmonized sales tax ( HST) is a consumption tax in Canada. It is used in provinces where both the federal goods and services tax (GST) and the regional provincial sales tax (PST) have been combined into a single value-added tax. [1]
Canadian public debt, or general government debt, is the liabilities of the government sector. [1]: 23 Government gross debtconsists of liabilities that are a financial claim that requires payment of interest and/or principal in future. [2]: 207 They consist mainly of Treasury bonds, but also include public service employee pension liabilities.
Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments amounted to 25.5% of GDP, below the OECD average of 33.5% of GDP.
Saint-Pierre was an outpost used to transport alcohol from Canada to the United States during Prohibition. Until 1945, there existed a third commune in Saint Pierre and Miquelon: L'Île-aux-Marins. The commune of L'Île-aux-Marins was annexed by the commune of Saint-Pierre in 1945. Demographics
United States. According to the Internal Revenue Service, 77% of tax returns filed in 2004 resulted in a refund check, with the average refund check being $2,100. [1] In 2011, the average tax refund was $2,913. [2] [3] For the 2017 tax year the average refund was $2,035 and for 2018 it was 8% less at $1,865, reflecting the changes brought by ...
The 2021 Canadian census counted a total population of 36,991,981, an increase of around 5.2 per cent over the 2016 figure. [7] [8] Between 1990 and 2008, the population increased by 5.6 million, equivalent to 20.4 per cent overall growth.
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC; French: Parti conservateur du Canada, PCC), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada.It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) and the Canadian Alliance, the latter being the successor of the Western Canadian–based Reform Party.
In the former Eastern Bloc countries, the public sector in 1989 accounted for between 70% and over 90% of total employment. In China a full 78.3% of the urban labor force were employed in the public sector by 1978, the year the Chinese economic reform was launched, after which the rates dropped.