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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Getting Canada Pension and UI money back ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233748.2789@sol.UVic.CA>
- Summary: money taken out of my pay!
- Keywords: Canada, tax, pension, UI, unemployment insurance
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
- References: <9212300128.AA09621@goliath.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:37:48 GMT
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- In article <9212300128.AA09621@goliath.Stanford.EDU>
- Rajesh Kumar Singh <rsingh@goliath.stanford.edu> writes:
- >Organization: Makalu Mountain Hermitage, Mt Makalu, Nepal
- >
- >SITUATION:
- >I worked in Canada during the fall 89 and spring 90 and as per my coy
- >of T4 (equivalent to US W-2), the following taxes were deducted.
- >All this time, my status was a student visa + a valid employment
- >authorization, something similar to being on F-1 with an EAD in US.
- >
- > Spring 1990
- > 4. Income tax: 5522.61
- > 5. Canada Pension plan, employee's portion: 507.11
- > 6. Unemployment insurance: 534.08
- >
- > amount in (4) DOES NOT include amounts in (5) and (6).
- >
- >Upon filing tax returns, I was refunded miniscule portions of (4).
-
- Using the 1991 Tax Tables for a resident of British Columbia,
- against your "Spring 1990" earnings:
- 1. your Federal Tax was $3528., your Federal Individual Surtax was $176.,
- and your B.C. Tax was $1817., totalling $5521.00
- 2. your Taxable Income, i.e., after all deductions and tax-credits,
- including the Basic Personal Amount of $6,280, must have been $20750.
- 3. CPP payable on self-employment earnings of (20750+6280) would be
- $1105.00 -- since you were not self-employed, your employee must
- pay half, i.e., $552.50.
-
- So, the amounts you paid were "typical" of an employed resident of Canada,
- although an income of over $27,000 for only the "Spring" is above-average!
-
- >I am NOT ALLOWED TO APPLY FOR ANY BENEFITS that are funded by the
- >contributions (5) and (6) above,
-
- You **are** allowed to apply to "Health and Welfare Canada" for a pension,
- once you reach "retirement age". Your pension will be calculated as an
- accumulation of all the periods you have worked, or will work in Canada,
- prior to your retirement.
- Note that Canada has many tax-treaties with the USA.
-
- By analogy, the UI is much like house insurance;
- you can't get the money back if your house doesn't burn down!
- (If it does burn down, you get **much** more money than you paid-in!)
-
- To be eligible to collect on UI, you must meet some qualifications
- laid out by "Employment and Immigration Canada", i.e., be resident in Canada,
- be actively looking for work (students normally can't collect UI),
- and have worked approximately 18 weeks prior to the start of unemployment.
-
- >and I was told at the time that I *DID NOT* have to pay these taxes.
- Did you get this statement in writing?
- Did you file any forms with Revenue Canada, requesting exemption?
-
- >However, my company was small (<20) and we only had a part time accountant,
- >so they just kept on deducting.
-
- Probably, you were not exempt, i.e., Revenue Canada wishes to maintain
- a level playing-field, i.e., any employee, either Canadian citizen or not,
- is required to pay CPP and UI. If this were not the case, the employer
- would always hire non-citizens, in order to "save money".
-