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1. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2017 Edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2016. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,006% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

2. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2017 edition

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

3. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 9, 2017

   In 2017, the average Canadian family will earn $108,674 in income and pay a total of $47,135 in taxes (43.4%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its total tax bill of $47,135 up front, it would have worked until June 8 to pay the total tax ...

4. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Alberta, 2017

   Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Alberta. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to ...

5. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Quebec, 2017

   Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Quebec. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to quantify ...

6. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario, 2017

   Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Ontario. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to quantify compensation ...

7. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in British Columbia, 2017

   Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in British Columbia. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt ...

8. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada

   Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Canada. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to quantify compensation ...

9. Average Canadian family paid $34,154 in taxes in 2015

   In a recent study, we tracked the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2015. For 2015, we estimate that the average Canadian family (including single Canadians) earned $80,593 in income and paid $34,154 in total ...

10. Estimating the price of public health care for Canadian families

    Last year, the amount of money spent by provincial governments on Canada’s public health-care system accounted for about seven per cent of the country’s economy and was the single-largest item of their respective budgets (representing 40 ...