@cm0002@lemmy.worldcake to Canada@lemmy.ca • 1 month agoCarney signs order to prioritize middle-class tax cut, after first meeting with new cabinetwww.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down11
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkCarney signs order to prioritize middle-class tax cut, after first meeting with new cabinetwww.ctvnews.ca@cm0002@lemmy.worldcake to Canada@lemmy.ca • 1 month agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@Candid_Andy@lemmy.calinkfedilink26•1 month agoI think that increasing the basic personal exemption would have helped a lot more lower income Canadians
minus-squareKichaelinkfedilinkEnglish19•1 month agoYes, but functionally no one voted NDP this year, and that was their pitch, IIRC.
minus-square@MacroCyclo@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•edit-21 month agoMy bad, it was to lower the rate on the lowest bracket. https://www.conservative.ca/poilievre-to-cut-income-tax-by-15-for-the-average-canadian/ I don’t know what Carney has planned, but a middle class tax cut could be this. Edit: It is, but going from 15% to 14% instead of Poilievre’s proposed 12.5% https://globalnews.ca/news/11180306/liberals-budget-middle-class-tax-cut/
minus-square@miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoIt may yet be part of things: a promised cut to middle class taxes should infer inclusion of the poorer.
minus-squareHellsBellelinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoOne would hope so, but I won’t hold my breath.
minus-square@vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.calinkfedilink3•1 month agowhy do they say it’s for “middle class” if it’s for poor people?
I think that increasing the basic personal exemption would have helped a lot more lower income Canadians
Yes, but functionally no one voted NDP this year, and that was their pitch, IIRC.
Wasn’t it also the CPC plan?
The CPC had a plan?
VERB the NOUN
My bad, it was to lower the rate on the lowest bracket. https://www.conservative.ca/poilievre-to-cut-income-tax-by-15-for-the-average-canadian/
I don’t know what Carney has planned, but a middle class tax cut could be this.
Edit: It is, but going from 15% to 14% instead of Poilievre’s proposed 12.5% https://globalnews.ca/news/11180306/liberals-budget-middle-class-tax-cut/
It may yet be part of things: a promised cut to middle class taxes should infer inclusion of the poorer.
One would hope so, but I won’t hold my breath.
why do they say it’s for “middle class” if it’s for poor people?