Q&A: Jamie Golombek solutions questions concerning the federal election and your taxes

With the tip of each the

tax season

and the

federal election

across the nook, many Canadians could also be questioning what the election means for his or her taxes.

Each the Liberals and Conservatives have promised various levels of tax cuts on earnings, housing, carbon and investments, however does does it imply to the common Canadian? What can we anticipate to return out of our paycheques? How a lot distinction will it make to our backside line?

Jamie Golombek

, Monetary Publish contributor and managing director of tax and property planning at CIBC Non-public Wealth, was available to reply reader questions on all issues taxes.

Tax guarantees this election

• Liberal chief Mark Carney has promised to decrease the bottom federal earnings tax bracket to 14 per cent, saving a typical two-income household $825 per 12 months.
• Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre is proposing an identical however deeper lower to 12.75 per cent for the bottom tax bracket.
• Carney has promised to chop the GST on first-time homebuyers for all houses underneath $1 million.
• Poilievre would lower the GST on all new houses underneath $1.3 million.
• Carney has already eliminated the buyer carbon tax, however plans to keep up the economic carbon tax.
• Poilievre would take away the economic carbon tax.