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Where your tax dollars go

Federal Provincial

Ranked by combined total (largest → smallest). Federal portion first, provincial stacked on top. Hover a segment for the exact amount.

Note on federal transfers: The Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer are federal payments to provinces shown here as federal-only items. For the CHT, each province's health share is further reduced by its actual 2023–24 CHT allocation (Finance Canada per-capita data) to remove CHT-funded healthcare from the provincial column. The CST adjustment has not been made: because provinces spend CST at their discretion across social services and post-secondary education, the per-province split between those two categories is not publicly available. Provincial social assistance and education figures remain modestly elevated by CST funding.

Detailed Breakdown

Category	Federal	Provincial	Combined	% of Total Tax

Sources & Notes

Tax brackets (2025): Canada Revenue Agency / TaxTips.ca — Federal and provincial/territorial rates
Federal spending: Government of Canada — Public Accounts of Canada 2023–24 (Volume I) and Federal Budget 2025. Major line items include: Canada Health Transfer ($54.7B, shown as a separate federal transfer), direct federal health programs — Health Canada, PHAC (~$11B), elderly benefits ($83.1B), EI + Canada Child Benefit ($60.6B), and public debt charges ($55.6B) from Budget 2025 projections. Equalization and Territorial Formula Financing ($31.7B) are included in Govt Administration. The CHT row has no provincial counterpart. Additionally, the provincial health spending percentages (Statistics Canada) include CHT-funded healthcare delivery. To correct for this, each province's health share is reduced by its 2023-24 CHT allocation as a proportion of total provincial expenditure (Finance Canada per-capita CHT data; provincial public accounts 2022-23), and all provincial categories are renormalized so they continue to distribute the full provincial tax paid. Territories (NT, NU, YT) receive equivalent health funding through Territorial Formula Financing rather than CHT directly and are not adjusted. The Canada Social Transfer ($15.9B) is a block transfer spent at provincial discretion across social services and post-secondary education. Because the inter-category split is not publicly reported per province, no equivalent adjustment is made; provincial social assistance and education figures remain modestly elevated by CST funding in unknown proportions. "Fiscal Transfers & Admin" also includes Equalization ($21.9B) and Territorial Formula Financing ($4.2B) — unconditional transfers that fund provincial/territorial programs across all categories.
Provincial spending: Statistics Canada — Table 10-10-0005-01, Government finance statistics (2023); individual provincial public accounts 2023–24
Spending allocations are approximate and rounded to the nearest 1%. Actual allocations vary year to year.
Ontario surtax and Quebec federal abatement (16.5%) are applied. PEI surtax eliminated for 2025 (restructured into bracket rates). See methodology document for full list of simplifications.