The Fraser Institute: Taxes Consume Larger Share of Family Budgets Than Basic Necessities of Life
(firmenpresse) - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/23/13 -- Canadian families are spending more money on taxes than on food, clothing, and shelter combined, reveals a new report from the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian think-tank.
The calculates that in 2012, 42.7 per cent of an average family's income went towards taxes (including all types of taxes imposed by federal, provincial, and local governments) while 36.9 per cent was spent on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
"Taxes are far and away the largest and fastest-increasing expense in the average household budget," said Charles Lammam, Fraser Institute associate director and co-author of the Canadian Consumer Tax Index.
"In fact, the tax bill for the average family has grown a whopping 1,787 per cent since 1961."
This 1,787 per cent growth has outpaced increases in the cost of shelter (1,290 per cent), clothing (607 per cent), and food (578 per cent). It has also outpaced the growth in Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index (675 per cent), which measures the average price that consumers pay for goods and services including shelter, food, clothing, transportation, health and personal care, education, and many others.
The Fraser Institute's Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2012 by adding up the various taxes that a family pays to federal, provincial, and local governments, including income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, Employment Insurance and Canadian Pension Plan contributions, and "hidden" taxes such as import duties, profit taxes, and gas taxes.
This year's index shows that while the average family's income has increased significantly over the past five decades, the average tax bill has grown even more:
The report also notes that in 1961, the average family spent 56.5 per cent of its income to pay for shelter, food, and clothing; in the same year, 33.5 per cent of the family's income went towards taxes. By 2012, the situation was reversed from 1961: the average family spent 36.9 of its income on basic necessities while 42.7 per cent of income went to paying taxes.
Deficits as deferred taxation
Unfortunately, the federal and most provincial governments are running budget deficits, meaning that today's taxes do not cover current levels of government spending.
"The outlook for taxpayers is bleak, since deficits must one day be paid for by working Canadians unless governments take serious steps to reduce spending," Lammam said.
"When government deficits, aka deferred taxes, are factored in, the total tax bill for the average Canadian family has increased by 1,932 per cent since 1961."
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Charles Lammam
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Fraser Institute Centre for Tax and Budget Policy
(604) 714-4544
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Kendal Egli
Communications Specialist
(416) 363-6575 ext. 235
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