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What is Tax?

Tax is a payment which the payer has to make in response to the service provided to the payer by the government or any other facility providing agencies. The tax has different definitions in different sectors and fields. There are different types of these such as such as direct, indirect, custom duty, sales, property, income, etc. Income tax means that a portion of a salary income is deducted for the welfare of the payer. In Canada the Canada Revenue Agency does the job of collecting federal money.

If this money is not paid can lead to serious legal actions on the head of the defaulter, because this form of payments is imposed on the individual or the company by the authorities. The money taken by the government is used for improving basic amenities of the province or the country. In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency following Tax Collection Agreements collects personal money from every payer except Quebec. The Canada Revenue Agency also collects money for the corporate except from Quebec & Alberta. The government of Canada, ever since the formation of a federal government, has tried to create an agency which is given a responsibility to collect different form of taxes from individuals across different provinces. The provincial governments were given little power and the provincial governments were given powers such as collection of property, sales, etc.

The major part of the revenue for the federal government and the provincial government comes from personal income taxes which amounts to 40% of the total revenue generated. The provincial government charges a lesser percentage of income money than the income tax charged by the federal government. The income money charged, from differs from individual to individual depending upon the salary of the individual and every individual is strictly required to pay money. Eloping from paying money can make the payer face legal actions because it is a forced contribution and not a donation.

The next form of money collecting is the corporate which is paid by the companies registered under a suitable act in the law of land. Corporate payable money is on the profit earned by the company and they don’t contribute much to the treasury of the government. This money is to be paid before dividends are distributed amongst the shareholders and something very crucial to mention here is that the companies pass on tax credits to the shareholders. But the recent trend reveals that the companies have converted into Income Trusts to reduce the amount of money paid but recently the government has stopped this conversion.

Thus it is a truism that there are many doors for the money to flow into the government treasury as a part of money levied on companies, individuals, shopkeepers and house owners but the purpose of collecting money has four motives to serve. The first motive is to collect revenue; the second is to redistribute the money from the richer poor sections to the poor sections of society. The third motive is re-pricing and is often levied on stuffs whose use should be discouraged such as tobacco and lastly, the purpose of collecting money is to judge the accountability of the government and its commitment to use the money of common people for the welfare of common people.



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