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Conservative
income tax proposals disproportionately benefit men, upper-income
families -- CCPA Report
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
Media
Release
June
22, 2004
OTTAWA
-- Families with incomes over $150,000 are the big winners in the
Conservative Party's proposed income tax package, according to Who
benefits? A gender and distributional impact analysis of election
income tax promises. Furthermore, low-income and even middle-income
Canadian families benefit very little from the Conservative income
tax promises.
The study, released
today by the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives, also found that men received the
lion's share--73%--of the value of the tax reductions under the Conservative's
proposal.
Under the NDP
tax promise, families with incomes below $60,000 receive almost two-thirds
of the tax reduction package. Men would see their total income tax
payable increase an average of $106 while women would see an average
decrease of $439.
The Liberals have
no income tax proposals in their platform.
The report, written
by economists Sheila Block and Ellen Russell, used Statistics
Canada's Social Policy Simulation Database and Model to analyze
the personal income tax proposals of the three major national political
parties.
Conservative
key findings include:
- The 64% of
Canadian families with family incomes of $70,000 and less receive
only 11.6% of the total decrease in taxes. Of these, the 32% of
families with the lowest family incomes (under $30,000) receive
less than one per cent.
- The 36% of
families with incomes of $70,000 or more receive 88% of the total
decrease in taxes. And of these, the 7% of families with incomes
of $150,000 or more receive almost one-third of the total value
of this tax cut.
- Men would see
their total income tax payable decline by $559 on average, while
women would see an average decrease of only $201.
NDP key findings include:
- Families with
incomes between $60,000 and $90,000 experience the largest average
decrease--between $794 and $803.
- Families with
incomes above $150,000 have an average increase in taxes payable
of $1,752. These increases account for 33% of the net reduction
in total personal income taxes.
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Who benefits? A gender and distributional impact analysis of election
income tax promises is available on the CCPA web page: http://www.policyalternatives.ca
For more information
contact:
Kerri-Anne Finn, Communications officer, CCPA, 613-563-1341.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca
Who
benefits? A gender and distributional impact analysis of election
income tax promises
by
Ellen Russell and Sheila Block
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the PDF 
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the news release on CCPA site
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