Sweden has comparatively high payroll tax rates at 31.4 per cent.
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In Sweden, spending increases must be offset by equivalent spending cuts to meet fiscal targets.
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The top tax rate in Sweden applies to income starting at roughly US$62,000 compared to between US$535,000 and US$1 million in the United States.
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The Trudeau government ranks last on average total household income growth.
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In Canada, 36.1 per cent of people in the top decile in 2017 were not in the top decile five years earlier.
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A policy issue that permeated political debates around the world in 2012 was the idea of raising taxes on high-income earners. In the U.S., it stood front and centre in President Obamas re-election. Several governments in Europe went beyond debate and introduced higher tax rates. Here at home, higher taxes on upper-income earners have been proposed at the federal and many provincial levels; Ontarios government recently instituted a new tax on those earning more than $500,000.