The taxes you pay into the systems differ as well. While employees in the U.S. pay 6.2% to Social Security, their neighbors to the north pay a slightly lower 5.95%. If you are self-employed in either country, you are responsible for paying the employer portion in addition to your own....
The value of a defined benefit SPP is often a fixed percentage your salary multiplied by the number of years you have been employed. With defined contributions, it is more difficult to be precise about the plan’s value and your retirement income. These are determined by the value of the a...
Self-employed tax is how self-employed individuals (i.e., sole proprietors or partners in a partnership) pay income tax and make CPP contributions. If this tax seems higher than what you paid as an employee, that’s because it is. Employers and employees typically split these taxes in Ca...
How does the Canada pension plan work? Anyone whose pensionable employment income exceeds $3,500 must contribute to the CPP (or QPP). This rule applies to both employees and the self-employed. "Pensionable employment is any employment for which a pension plan or fund has been set up," as...
Canada Pension Plan/Québec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP) payments Optional employment insurance (EI) payments Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) Paying Your Income Taxes as a Self-Employed Sole Proprietor As a sole proprietor, your personal income and business’ net income generated,...
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The Canada Pension Plan, Canada’s pension program. EI The Employment Insurance program. This is optional for self-employed workers, including those who own their own corporation. He would also have to pay additional taxes if he lived in certain provi...
you’ll generally need to give your total gross (i.e. before tax) annual income. While this is a simple request for salaried employees on a fixed income, calculating this figure may be difficult for those who are unemployed, self-employed, a student, stay-at-home parent, or work as a...
Employee benefits like the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) are tax deductible. In Québec, workers including those self-employed would come under the Québec Pension Plan. Advertising and Promotion You can claim most advertising expenses incurred for promoting your small business. Usually, these kinds of...
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