Income Tax Refund Taxed as Income?

[Ed Anger]

Mart pays his taxes in hunks of black bread.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Well we have provicial taxes as well as federal here in Canada as well. When I was in Japan I paid a flat 5% Fed tax, and another 5.5 for local. (this goes as high as 7.5 % iirc the closer you are to the Big cities in Tokyo, like Shinjuku, or Shibuya )

Isn't it fairly normal to pay different levels of government at income tax time?

I don't think we pay prov tax on the fed money here though, it's more of a combo payment. I could be wrong. despite doing my taxes myself every year... correctly, I might add. I'm better at following instructions that getting the concepts :prole:

[Razgovory]

Mart pays his taxes in hunks of black bread.

I thought he just had to pull a plow one day a week for his Lord.

[crazy canuck]

I don't think we pay prov tax on the fed money here though, it's more of a combo payment. I could be wrong. despite doing my taxes myself every year... correctly, I might add. I'm better at following instructions that getting the concepts :prole:

We do it differently here Buddha.  Your Provincial tax and Federal tax are paid together to the Federal Government and the Feds remit that provincial portion to the Province.

Although in Quebec they might do things differently.

[Ed Anger]

Mart pays his taxes in hunks of black bread.

I thought he just had to pull a plow one day a week for his Lord.

Jesus is King.

[Grey Fox]

I don't think we pay prov tax on the fed money here though, it's more of a combo payment. I could be wrong. despite doing my taxes myself every year... correctly, I might add. I'm better at following instructions that getting the concepts :prole:

We do it differently here Buddha.  Your Provincial tax and Federal tax are paid together to the Federal Government and the Feds remit that provincial portion to the Province.

Although in Quebec they might do things differently.

We do but at the end of the day, it's just more bureaucracy.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I don't think we pay prov tax on the fed money here though, it's more of a combo payment. I could be wrong. despite doing my taxes myself every year... correctly, I might add. I'm better at following instructions that getting the concepts :prole:

We do it differently here Buddha.  Your Provincial tax and Federal tax are paid together to the Federal Government and the Feds remit that provincial portion to the Province.

Although in Quebec they might do things differently.

that's what I meant by a "combo" thing. It's all part of one return. But it doesn't seem like you are paying either on top of the other to me.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Actually I was thinking of getting some software to do my taxes this year, as I totally bollocksed the rrsp thing last year.