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INCOME EARNERS [8 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Laws and Regulations (Canadian)
  • Pensions and Annuities
OBS

The Government Annuities Act was passed in 1908, the purpose being "to authorize the issue of Government Annuities for Old Age". The Act was primarily designed for salary and wage earners to enable them to save systematically for a retirement income in later life.

OBS

Short title: Government Annuities Act.

Key term(s)
  • Act to authorize the issue of Government annuities for old age

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements fédéraux canadiens
  • Pensions et rentes
OBS

Loi visant essentiellement à aider les salariés à économiser systématiquement en vue de leur assurer un revenu de retraite plus tard.

OBS

Titre abrégé : Loi relative aux rentes sur l'État.

Key term(s)
  • Loi des rentes de l'état

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
DEF

An amount determined by the taxpayer’s status as a single person, married person, or head of a family which he may subtract from his net income in the computation of his income tax.

CONT

The basic justification for the personal exemption is that very low income earners have no taxpaying capacity...

OBS

Section 109 of the Income Tax Act provides for the following personal exemptions: basic personal exemption, age exemption, married exemption, equivalent to married exemption, exemption for wholly dependent children and exemption for other dependants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
DEF

Sommes dépendant de la situation familiale du contribuable, de son âge, etc., que la loi lui permet de déduire dans le calcul de son revenu imposable.

OBS

Abattement et exonération personnelle s'utilisent surtout au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • exemptions personnelles
  • abattements
  • exonérations personnelles

Spanish

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

Parte de la renta de las personas físicas o jurídicas no incluible en la base imponible.

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Record 3 2019-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Taxation
OBS

The Community Volunteer Income Tax Program is a community-based outreach program administered by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency [now the Canada Revenue Agency] which helps people with straightforward tax situations complete their income tax returns free of charge. It is designed to help the people who need it most : newcomers to Canada, low-income wage earners, students and seniors.

Key term(s)
  • Community Volunteer Programme
  • Community Volunteer Income Tax Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Fiscalité
OBS

Le Programme communautaire des bénévoles en matière d'impôt est un programme communautaire administré par l'Agence des douanes et du revenu du Canada [maintenant l'Agence du revenu du Canada] qui aide gratuitement les personnes, dont la situation fiscale est simple, à remplir leurs déclarations de revenus. Le programme est destiné aux personnes qui ont le plus besoin d'aide : nouveaux arrivants au Canada, salariés à faible revenu, étudiants et personnes âgées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas federales (Gobierno canadiense)
  • Sistema tributario
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Record 4 2015-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

Another aspect of the US restructuring experience that has been key to the tactics of labour cost compression-a marked widening of income inequality. In 1995, the wages of US male earners were roughly 4, 4 times those of the lower decile... wage dispersion ratio was between 2. 0 and 3. 0 for Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Australia. The ratio for UK was about 3. 3, and that for Canada about 3. 8.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
CONT

Un autre aspect de l'expérience américaine de restructuration a constitué une pièce maîtresse de la stratégie de réduction des coûts de main-d'œuvre : l'aggravation des inégalités de revenus. En 1995, les travailleurs masculins appartenant au décile le plus élevé gagnaient environ 4,4 fois plus que ceux du décile inférieur [...] le ratio de dispersion des salaires s'échelonnait entre 2,0 et 3,0 pour l'Allemagne, le Japon, l'Italie, la Suède, la Finlande et l'Australie. Ce même ratio s'établissait à environ 3,3 pour le Royaume-Uni et à 3,8 pour le Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost of Living
DEF

People on average incomes who have less money than previously to buy the things they need because rising costs have not been matched by an increase in pay.

CONT

The term squeezed middle, though understood in the US, is mainly used in British English, and refers to those people who neither fall into the lowest income category, where they might get support from the welfare state, nor count among the country's top earners, for whom financial cutbacks have little personal impact.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coût de la vie
CONT

Pour Steven Fielding, professeur à l'Université de Nottingham, «il reprend le thème de la squeezed middle class» (classe moyenne pressurée) qui englobe à la fois la classe ouvrière appauvrie et la classe moyenne séduite par le New Labour de Tony Blair, avant de déserter le parti.

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
DEF

Reduction in real income due to the increase in income from inflation, resulting in income earners being placed in higher tax brackets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema tributario
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Record 7 1985-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
OBS

In the 1981 Census, Stats. Can. removed the concept of "head of household" and replaced it with the gender-neutral "household maintainer"... to remove the traditional assumption that men are the income earners

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
OBS

section de trad. de Stat. Can.

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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