Avviare un'impresa in Canada? Poi — unfortunately — you’ll need to learn more about Imposte canadesi.

Un think tank canadese, il CD. Howe Institute, recently released a report on Canada’s “competitività fiscale” — assessing how corporate taxes in Canada compare to those in other countries and also how tax rates vary among the Canadian provinces.

Fra i risultati:

La buona notizia è che Metro del Canada (marginal effective tax rate) è sceso a 28.0 cento in 2009 and is set to fall further….a 18.9 percent by 2013. If no offsetting tax changes occur abroad by 2013, these tax changes will place Canada’s rate for capital investment close to the average level of marginal effective tax rates among 80 countries worldwide.

Tuttavia, the study also “…reveals an ‘eye-popping’ divergence in approach to tax policy among (provincial) governi:”

A leader on the path to prosperity…è New Brunswick, which is pursuing broad structural reforms to its personal and business tax structures to improve simplicity and efficiency. Anche, Ontario e British Columbia will adopt a more efficient and fair sales tax structure by harmonizing their individual sales tax regimes with the federal GST…..

On the other end of the spectrum, several provinces have failed to improve their tax structures. Isola del Principe Edoardo retains the most outdated structure, with high tax rates on corporate income and retail sales.

Così where do businesses in Canada pay the highest taxes?

In 2009, le province atlantiche, tranne che per Isola del Principe Edoardo, taxed capital investment the least, seguita da Quebec e Alberta….

The highest-taxed province in 2009 è ancora Ontario, but this is rapidly changing. Prince Edward Island will become the highest-taxed province in 2013 a 29.2 per cento, after Ontario and British Columbia implement their sales tax harmonization and Ontario reduces its corporate income tax rate to 10 per cento. Manitoba will be second-highest taxed at 27.0 per cento, seguita da Saskatchewan a 24.9 per cento.

È possibile leggere il report completo qui.

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