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Canada

Federal Personal Income Tax Rates

Band of Taxable
Income ($Cdn)

Rate of Tax Applicable
to Band (%)

Cumulative Tax on
Upper Limit of Band
($Cdn)

0-29,590 17 5,030
29,591-59,180 26 12,724
Over 59,180 29 -

Canada

Provincial Corporate Income Tax Rates

Province or
Territory

Basic Rate (%)

Manufacturing and Processing Income (%)

Small
Business
Income (%)

Alberta 15.5 14.5 6
British Columbia 16.5 16.5 10
Manitoba 17 17 9
New Brunswick 17 17 9
Newfoundland 14 5 5
Northwest Territories 14 14 5
Nova Scotia 16 16 5
Ontario 15.5 13.5 9.5
Prince Edward Island 15 7.5 7.5
QuÈbec 16.25 8.9 5.75
Saskatchewan 17 17 8
Yukon 15 2.5 6

Canada

Class and Maximum Capital Cost Allowance Rates for Selected Assets
Asset Class Rate (%)
Buildings acquired after 1987 1 4
Boats and ships 7 15
Tractors and large trucks used to haul freight acquired after 6 December 1991

10


40
Automotive equipment, automobiles, and certain trucks
10-10.1

30
Contractors' movable equipment 10 30
Most machinery, equipment, and furniture
8

20
Machinery and equipment acquired after 25 February 1992 and used in manufacturing and processing

43


30

Canada


Provincial Personal Income Tax Rates
Province or Territory Rate (%)
Alberta 45.5
British Columbia 52.5
Manitoba 52
New Brunswick 64
Newfoundland 69
Northwest Territories 45
Nova Scotia 59.5
Ontario 58
Prince Edward Island 59.5
Saskatchewan 50
Yukon 50
Note: Rates are applied to federal personal income tax payable. These provincial rates do not include surtaxes and flat taxes, which are levied in a number of the provinces.

Canada

Capital Tax Rates

Jurisdiction

Exemption
($Cdn)

General
Rate
(%)

Financial Institutions Rate (%)a

Federal:      
Large corporations 10,000,000 0.2 0.2
Financial institutions and life insurance companies only

200,000,000


-


1.25b
Province or territory:      
Alberta - - 2.0
British Columbia 1,500,000 0.3 1.0c
Manitoba 2,000,000 0.3d 3.0
New Brunswick 10,000,000 - 3.0
Newfoundland 1,000,000 - 3.0
Northwest Territories - - -
Nova Scotia 500,000e - 3.0
Ontariof - 0.3 1.12
Prince Edward Island 2,000,000 - 3.0
QuÈbec -g 0.56 1.47
Saskatchewanh 10,000,000 0.6 3.25
Yukon - - -
a. The term financial institutions includes banks and trust and loan companies, although it varies from province to province. It does not include life insurance companies, which in some provinces are liable for capital tax based on premiums.
b. The rate is 1% on taxable capital between $Cdn 200,000,000 and $Cdn 300,000,000. An additional temporary tax is imposed until December 1995 on the capital employed in Canada of life insurers. This tax raises the rate to 1.5%.
c. The rate for banks and trust companies with taxable capital over $Cdn 750,000,000 is 3%.
d. A surcharge of 0.2% applies to corporations (other than trust and loan corporations and banks) with taxable paid-up capital in excess of $Cdn 10,000,000, producing an effective rate of 0.5%.
e. A $Cdn 2,000,000 exemption applies to loan and trust companies with head offices in Nova Scotia.
f. Small corporations (those with total assets and gross revenue each under $Cdn 1,000,000) are exempt from capital tax. Other corporations that have taxable capital of under $Cdn 2,300,000 are generally subject to taxes of fixed amounts.
g. Qualifying CCPCs incorporated after 1 May 1986 may be eligible for a 3-year capital tax

exemption on up to $Cdn 2,000,000 paid-up capital.

h. Large resource corporations are subject to a capital tax surcharge.

Canada

Withholding Tax Rates for Treaty Countries
  Dividends    

Country of
Recipient

Major
Rate(%)

Minor
Rate
(%)

Major Holding
(%)

Interest
(%)

Royalties (%)

Argentina 10 15 25 12.5 15a
Australia 15 15 - 15 10
Austria 15 15 - 15b 10b
Bangladesh 15 15 - 15 10
Barbados 15 15 - 15b 10b
Belgium 15 15 - 15 10
Brazil 15 25 10 15c 15c,d
Cameroon 15 15 - 15 15
China (People's Republic of) 10 15 10 10 10
Cyprus 15 15 - 15 10
Czech Republice 10 15 10 10 10
Denmark 15 15 - 15 15
Dominican Republic 18 18 - 18b 18b
Egypt 15 15 - 15 15
Finland 10 15 10 10 10f
France 10 15 10 10 10b
Germany 15 15 - 15 10
Guyana 15 15 - 15 10
Hungary 10 15 25 10 10
India 15 25 10 15 25g
Indonesia 15 15 - 15b 15b
Ireland 15h 15 - 15 15
Israel 15 15 - 15b 15b
Italy 15 15 - 15 10
Ivory Coast 15 15 - 15 10
Jamaica 15i 15i - 15b,i 10b,i
Japan 10 15 25 10 10
Kenya 15 25 10 15b 15b
Korea (Republic of) 15 15 - 15 15
Luxembourg 10j 15j 25 15j 10j
Malaysia 15b 15b - 15 15g
Malta 15 15 - 15 10
Mexico 10 15 25 15 15
Morocco 15 15 - 15b 10b
Netherlands 7k 15 25 10 10
New Zealand 15 15 - 15 15
Norway 15 15 - 15 15l
Pakistan 15 15 - 15b 15b
Papua New Guinea 15 15 - 10 10
Philippines 15 15 - 15b 10b
Poland 15 15 - 15 10
Romania 15 15 - 15b 15b,l
Singapore 15 15 - 15b 15b
Slovakiae 10 15 10 10 10
Soviet Unionm 15 15 - 15 10
Spain 15 15 - 15b 10b
Sri Lanka 15 15 - 15b 10b
Sweden 15 15 - 15 10
Switzerland 15 15 - 15 10
Thailand 15 15 - 15 15
Trinidad and Tobago 15 15 - 15 15
Tunisia 15 15 - 15b 15b,n
United Kingdom 10 15 10 10 10
United States 10 15 10 15 10
Zambia 15 15 - 15b 15b
Zimbabwe 10 15 25 15 10
a. Rates of 3%, 5%, 10%, or 15% may apply, depending on the product under royalty.
b. This rate applies if the recipient is taxable in the country of residence; otherwise, the nontreaty rate applies.
c. This rate applies if the recipient is a company; otherwise, the nontreaty rate applies.
d. The rate is 25% for trademark royalties.
e. These rates apply under the treaty signed with Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the treaty continues to apply to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
f. Certain film royalties are exempt.
g. Payments with respect to the removal of natural resources are exempt.
h. Exempt if the recipient is an Irish resident company that owns all the voting shares of the Canadian resident company and the Canadian resident company (1) does not own any shares of another Canadian resident company and (2) derives at least 95% of its gross income from foreign-source dividends and interest.
i. The nontreaty rate applies if the recipient is a Jamaican international finance company.
j. The nontreaty rate applies if the recipient is a Luxembourg holding company.
k. Reduced to 6% for 1996 and 5% thereafter.

l. The rate is 10% for film royalties.

m. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this treaty continues to apply to members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
n. The rate is 20% for patents, trademarks, film royalties, and the right to use industrial, commercial, scientific, or harbor equipment.

Canada

Federal Corporate Income Tax Rates
Type of Income Rate (%)
Active business income eligible for the small business deduction (CCPCs only)
12
Active business income not eligible for the small business deduction:  
General 28
Manufacturing and processing 21a
Income other than active business income 28
Note: Rates shown assume liability for provincial tax and are thus reduced by 10% for the provincial abatement.
a. Available to Canadian corporations and to Canadian branches of foreign enterprises alike.

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