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Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Nearly $5,000 /yr for medical, vision, dental seems quite high. Where is that default coming from?

it was a guess based on numbers I polled from someone I know, then I just multiplied it by 3, for a "family of 3" as indicated in the comments. If you are willing to provide a more accurate number, I'll include that.

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Is this missing federal taxes? It's way off for higher income brackets (almost 100% off).

Yikes. No, I have added the federal taxes to it, and it appears to be deducting it from the total income. Could you provide a little more data so I can track down the issue you are seeing?

I had a bug where was was deducting taxes from the total income, not the taxable income, which lead to numbers being off. This is now corrected, hopefully this is the issue you were seeing.

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Your federal and provincial income taxes are way too low. If you click on the link below, you'll see BC has an average tax rate of 25.8% on 100K. https://neuvoo.ca/tax-calculator/Ontario-100000#:~:text=%245... . Taxes are killer in the Great White North.

> Taxes are killer in the Great White North. Fortunately this pays for an extensive social security network including health care (though sadly not dental!)

I'd be interested in total take-home pay when comparing Canadian taxes to US taxes + employer-sponsored healthcare coverage.

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In addition to RRSP, you can reduce tax by contributing to TFSA. Just focus on Ontario and BC, these will be sufficient for most tech immigrants.

That's not accurate. TFSA contributions are only made with post tax income, the real benefit comes when you take the money out since any gains made with the invested money will be tax free when withdrawn.

Thanks, it slipped my mind :-)

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Your federal and provincial income taxes are way too low. If you click on the link below, you'll see BC has an average tax rate of 25.8% on 100K. https://neuvoo.ca/tax-calculator/Ontario-100000#:~:text=%245... . Taxes are killer in the Great White North.

Yep, I think you are right. I'm subtracting taxes from "total income" right now, instead of "taxable income", so I'm not excluding the contributions! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll address that shortly.

Deleted my comment as I wasn't sure if I'm exactly right either. The reference for calculating payroll deductions is as follows:

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pub/t412...

Formula is a bit complicated

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Your federal and provincial income taxes are way too low. If you click on the link below, you'll see BC has an average tax rate of 25.8% on 100K. https://neuvoo.ca/tax-calculator/Ontario-100000#:~:text=%245... . Taxes are killer in the Great White North.

> Taxes are killer in the Great White North. Fortunately this pays for an extensive social security network including health care (though sadly not dental!)

> though sadly not dental!

or prescriptions

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Taxes are killer in the Great White North. Fortunately this pays for an extensive social security network including health care (though sadly not dental!)

I'd be interested in total take-home pay when comparing Canadian taxes to US taxes + employer-sponsored healthcare coverage.

Ya, I hear you there. That's actually why I built this, was to help calculate that, but there are so many variables in that calculation, I decided to start with I would just figure out what would be left of your paycheque each month and then users can compare against their US bank statements. Its rough, but hopefully its enough to give people considering making a move enough information to decide.

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, I think you are right. I'm subtracting taxes from "total income" right now, instead of "taxable income", so I'm not excluding the contributions! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll address that shortly.

Deleted my comment as I wasn't sure if I'm exactly right either. The reference for calculating payroll deductions is as follows: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pub/t412... Formula is a bit complicated

I noticed. Thanks for posting your initial response. It lead me to check how I was calculating, and I think you were right. I have addressed it now, but I'm sure this wont 100% reflect the Canadian tax calculation, but based on comparisons with other tax calculators, it seems to be coming pretty close. Where I know it will be way off is in the "additional annual income" table, as I made no effort to classify those. Everything is just considered "income" and taxed at the same federal/provincial rates.

Re: Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Taxes are killer in the Great White North. Fortunately this pays for an extensive social security network including health care (though sadly not dental!)

I'd be interested in total take-home pay when comparing Canadian taxes to US taxes + employer-sponsored healthcare coverage.

I think the difference in taxes are a very minor factor compared to the difference in pre-tax compensation in the US vs Canada.
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