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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Exactly, this isn’t helping the lowest paid workers anyways as tipped workers are inherently making above minimum wage (except possibly in Quebec). Why should for example a construction labourer making $25/hr pay more in taxes than a server bringing in $100/day in tips (~$30/hr)? If we really want to help the lowest wage workers (and to a lesser extent, all working class) the personal exemption should be much closer to the annual income from full-time minimum wage work.







  • I don’t know how it was in the rest of Canada, but in BC it won’t make a huge difference either way. People in Vancouver and Victoria probably are slightly worse off, people everywhere else are probably saving money now. Last year my family netted maybe $3-400 from the rebate, but only because it was based on income data from the previous year when we both didn’t work as much as usual (parental leave). If it wasn’t removed this year, it would’ve cost us at least $200 (more if the rate went up as it was scheduled to).

    That was all based on just gas for commuting to work for ease of math. I also didn’t factor in natural gas heating as being a renter in a shared house I’m not sure exactly how much the tax contributed there.