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January 25, 2012 Labour

Lighter Wallet? Low Wages, Not High Taxes, To Blame

Analysts say "bracket creep" much less of a concern than stagnant wages

September 24, 2007 Weblog:

Statscan: Rich got richer, poor and middle class stayed same

A new study says high-income Canadians got a lot richer between 1992 and 2004, while the rest of the population made little financial progress.

The Statistics Canada study, which used tax returns to explore trends among high-income earners, found the top five per cent of the tax-filing population accounted for about 21 per cent of total income in 1992; by 2004 it accounted for 25 per cent.

The study found little improvement among the rest of the population and it says that while there were more high-income earners who were women in 2004, their share of the pie was depleted.

Three-quarters of the 1.2 million high-income Canadians were men, even though men were a minority (48 per cent) of individual income recipients in general.

--Report on Business (not, I note, the National section)

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