TORONTO, April 23 (UPI) -- The top 10 percent of Canadian wage earners carried more than half the nation's federal personal income tax load, 53 percent, in 2002.
In its report, Statistics Canada divided tax filers into three groups: the 10 percent with the highest incomes, the 50 percent with the lowest incomes, and the remaining 40 per cent, called intermediate-income earners.
High-income earners earned $64,500 or more in 2002 and $48,700 or more in 1990, according to Duane Hayes, senior economist at Statscan's tax data division.
Tax filers with the lowest incomes -- $23,000 or less in 2002 or $19,000 in 1990 -- saw their share of income taxes fall for the same period, reported the Globe and Mail.
Intermediate-income earners with earning between $23,001 and $64,500 in 2002, and $19,001 to $48,700 in 1990, were the biggest winners concerning tax rate, this group went from from $11.75 in federal tax paid for each $100 of income to $10.14, a decline of $1.61.
While federal taxes increased 49 percent, total income rose 64 percent, the report said.
