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GOVERNMENT TRANSFER INCOME [7 records]

Record 1 2026-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
OBS

guaranteed annual income; GAI : designations that broadly refer to a cash transfer provided by government to individuals to ensure a minimum level of annual income for everyone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

revenu annuel garanti; RAG : désignations qui désignent généralement un transfert en espèces accordé par un gouvernement aux particuliers afin d'assurer un revenu annuel minimum à tous.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
CONT

Tax points came to prominence with the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act of 1961 ... when the federal and provincial governments converted from the tax rental arrangements (which originated during World War II) to separate federal and provincial personal and corporate income taxes (PIT and CIT).

OBS

[A tax point is] one percentage point of basic federal tax payable; this is the amount a province would get if the federal government transfers a personal income tax point to a province. If the federal government plans to transfer two tax points to the provinces to compensate them for taking over the full cost of what had been a shared-cost program, it turns over to each province two percentage points of the federal basic tax collected from the taxpayers of that province. In the case of corporate income tax, it is one percentage point of taxable corporate profits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
CONT

Au début des années 1960, la valeur d'un point d'impôt à l'égard de l'impôt sur le revenu des particuliers était mesurée en points de pourcentage de l'impôt fédéral de base, le total donnant 100 [...] Ainsi, le transfert d'un point d'impôt équivalait à la diminution de 1 % de l'impôt fédéral de base.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema tributario
CONT

[...] aunque los puntos impositivos nivelados que se transfieren no representan un pago real, esta transferencia de espacio fiscal es usada de dos maneras. Primero, una vez que el gobierno federal establece la cantidad agregada de la transferencia, el valor para todas las provincias de la transferencia de puntos impositivos determina el gasto en efectivo federal. [...] Segundo, el espacio fiscal nivelado transferido juega también un importante papel en la asignación de las transferencias en efectivo entre las provincias.

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Record 3 2021-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Finance
OBS

[The Fiscal Monitor reports] on the government's fiscal performance. It compares performance in the current month with that in the same month in the previous year, as well as performance since the start of the fiscal year with that in the same period one year earlier. It reports revenues(income tax revenues, excise taxes and duties, employment insurance premiums, and other revenues) and expenses(transfer payments to persons, transfers to other levels of government, and subsidies and other transfers).

OBS

Department of Finance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Finances
OBS

[La revue financière présente] les résultats financiers du gouvernement. Elle compare les résultats du mois courant par rapport à ceux du même mois [de] l'année précédente, ainsi que les résultats depuis le début de l'exercice financier par rapport à la même période l'année précédente. Elle fait état des revenus (impôt sur le revenu, taxes et droits d'accise, cotisations d'assurance-emploi et autres revenus) et des dépenses (transferts aux particuliers, transferts aux autres administrations, et subventions et autres transferts).

OBS

Ministère des finances.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Public Sector Budgeting
DEF

Transfer of income that does not involve a quid pro quo and which is non-contractual in character, for example, direct taxes, social security benefits and contributions, social assistance grants and grants between governments to finance the military or other consumption expenditure or budgetary deficit of a government.

Key term(s)
  • unrequited remittance
  • unilateral transfer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Budget des collectivités publiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Presupuestación del sector público
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Record 5 2001-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

In 1977, federal transfers that formerly had been tied to provincial spending for health and post-secondary education were converted to a "block" transfer, consisting of cash and the value of income tax points given up by the federal government at the time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
CONT

En 1977, les transferts fédéraux qui avaient été établis jusque-là en fonction des dépenses consacrées par les provinces à la santé et à l'enseignement postsecondaire ont fait place à un transfert global ou «en bloc», formé d'une partie en espèces et d'une partie en points d'impôt sur le revenu que le gouvernement fédéral a alors cédés aux provinces.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Presupuestación del sector público
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Record 6 1998-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Customs and Excise
  • Taxation
DEF

A department of government set up for the purpose of assessing and collecting income tax, capital transfer tax, licences of various kinds. It does not include excise duty. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995].

OBS

The Department [of Inland Revenue] shall have the control and management of, - (a) the collection of all duties of excise; (b) the collection of stamp duties and the preparation and issue of stamps and stamped paper, except postage stamps; (c) internal taxes; (d) standard weights and measures; (e) the collection of bridge and ferry tolls and rents; ... [Inland Revenue Act].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Douanes et accise
  • Fiscalité
OBS

Loi citée : Loi du revenu de l'intérieur.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Phraseology
CONT

To prevent the tax-free transfer of income between generations, the government also taxes all unrealised capital gains at death, except when they are transferred to a spouse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Phraséologie
CONT

Pour empêcher le transfert, en franchise d'impôts, de revenu entre générations, le gouvernement impose aussi tous les gains en capital non réalisés au décès, sauf lorsque l'actif est transféré au conjoint.

Spanish

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