Dividend Gross-Up Tax Rule

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Dividend Gross-Up

The dividend gross-up is a multiple used to calculate what the shareholders owe in tax from the dividends they received from Canadian-Controlled Private Corporations (CCPC). Income within a corporation is taxed first at the organizations’ level then the after-tax proportion is taxed additionally in the hands of the shareholders at the individual’s level. The gross-up amounts in 2013 for eligible dividends was 138% and for non-eligible dividends was 125%. Each province varies in rates of corporate and personal taxes, so there are no absolute savings across Canada.

Many tax payers may consider this rule to be undesirable because the gross-up essentially is artificially raising their income before they pay taxes on it, which in hand raises their taxable income. The controversy arises when dividends are grossed-up before the tax owing is calculated, and tax payers argue that it could be as effective grossed-up after tax owing is calculated. The gross-up of dividends can also further cause issues when included in the calculation of penalties incurred for tax filing e...

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