What Are Taxes?
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Paying Taxes in BC from People's Law School has been replaced by Essentials of Money & Debt. This new title covers income tax as well as other aspects of managing your finances and dealing with debt-related problems.
Everyone who lives in Canada pays taxes to all three levels of government:
- federal government,
- provincial government, and
- municipal (city or town) government.
Taxes pay for many services that everyone in Canada uses. For example:
- medical care,
- police,
- schools,
- universities,
- defence,
- roads,
- bridges,
- parks,
- swimming pools, and
- community centres.
There are different kinds of taxes in British Columbia. The main taxes to know about are:
- income tax,
- sales tax,
- property tax,
- duty, a tax you pay when you bring goods into Canada, and
- consumer taxes.
| This information applies to British Columbia, Canada. Last reviewed for legal accuracy by People's Law School, 2014. |
Paying Taxes in BC from People's Law School has been replaced by Essentials of Money & Debt. This new title covers income tax as well as other aspects of managing your finances and dealing with debt-related problems.
 Paying Taxes in BC © People's Law School is, except for the images, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
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