Revenue Statistics Details of Tax Revenue - Canada
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Contact OECD.RevenueStatistics@oecd.org. Including the subject line 'Revenue Statistics Country Table - Canada', which will help us answer your enquiry more quickly
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Statistics Canada
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Country representatives on the OECD Working Party 2: Tax Policy and Tax Statistics of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.
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The data for Revenue Statistics 2023 was received and processed in Q3 of 2023.
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Canadian Dollar
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There are some minor differences between the data for the years 1965 to 1978 and those for subsequent years. These mostly relate to the inclusion of fines and penalities or late payment of taxes and deductions for the child tax credits in the data for the years 1979 to 1983.

Heading 1210 - Taxes federal government: Federal corporate taxes include capital taxes.

Heading 2000: Includes receipts from the Canadian Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan, Unemployment Insurance Fund and Provincial Health Insurance. Premiums, Medicare Premiums and Social Insurance levies but excludes that part of the taxes on income and sales taxes earmarked for old age security. The practice of earmarking these taxes was discontinued in June 1975.

Heading 4400: From 2002 onward includes land transfer taxes of the provincial, territorial and local governments. Prior to 2002 land transfer taxes of the local government were included in line 6000 and those provincial and territorial governments were included in line 4520.

Heading 5121: The large increase in this heading between 1980 and 1981 is due to the introduction of a 'special petroleum compensation charge', a 'Canadian ownership special charge' and to an increase in the natural gas tax of C$ 2399 millions.

Heading 5122: From 1988, profits on fiscal monopolies include lottery profits.

Heading 5128: From 1988, other taxes of Federal Government does not include the annual fees for managing the spectrum (airwaves) allocation to the cellular industry.

Heading 5211: Some Québec motor vehicle licence administrative fees are included in sales of goods and services for the period 1988-89 to 1997-98. From 1998-99 onward, these fees are included under other taxes - motor vehicle licences.

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From 2001, all data are for the year ending 31st December. For 2000 and earlier years, data for the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments and Social security funds are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st April. Data for local government are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st January.
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Revenue Statistics Details of Tax Revenue - CanadaContact person/organisation
Contact OECD.RevenueStatistics@oecd.org. Including the subject line 'Revenue Statistics Country Table - Canada', which will help us answer your enquiry more quickly
Data source(s) used
Statistics Canada
Direct source
Country representatives on the OECD Working Party 2: Tax Policy and Tax Statistics of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.
Date last input received
The data for Revenue Statistics 2023 was received and processed in Q3 of 2023.
Unit of measure usedCanadian DollarPower code
Million
Variables collected
There are some minor differences between the data for the years 1965 to 1978 and those for subsequent years. These mostly relate to the inclusion of fines and penalities or late payment of taxes and deductions for the child tax credits in the data for the years 1979 to 1983.

Heading 1210 - Taxes federal government: Federal corporate taxes include capital taxes.

Heading 2000: Includes receipts from the Canadian Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan, Unemployment Insurance Fund and Provincial Health Insurance. Premiums, Medicare Premiums and Social Insurance levies but excludes that part of the taxes on income and sales taxes earmarked for old age security. The practice of earmarking these taxes was discontinued in June 1975.

Heading 4400: From 2002 onward includes land transfer taxes of the provincial, territorial and local governments. Prior to 2002 land transfer taxes of the local government were included in line 6000 and those provincial and territorial governments were included in line 4520.

Heading 5121: The large increase in this heading between 1980 and 1981 is due to the introduction of a 'special petroleum compensation charge', a 'Canadian ownership special charge' and to an increase in the natural gas tax of C$ 2399 millions.

Heading 5122: From 1988, profits on fiscal monopolies include lottery profits.

Heading 5128: From 1988, other taxes of Federal Government does not include the annual fees for managing the spectrum (airwaves) allocation to the cellular industry.

Heading 5211: Some Québec motor vehicle licence administrative fees are included in sales of goods and services for the period 1988-89 to 1997-98. From 1998-99 onward, these fees are included under other taxes - motor vehicle licences.

Link to Release calendar
This data is released at the same time as the annual OECD Revenue Statistics publication. The latest edition became available in December 2023.
Revenue Statisticshttps://oe.cd/revenue-statistics
Other coverage
From 2001, all data are for the year ending 31st December. For 2000 and earlier years, data for the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments and Social security funds are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st April. Data for local government are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st January.
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From 2001, all data are for the year ending 31st December. For 2005 and and earlier years, data for the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial governments are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st April. Data for local government are on a fiscal year basis commencing 1st January.
Other comments
A summary of the key findings for Canada is available as a downloadable PDF
Key findings: Canadahttps://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-canada.pdf