Don't take it personally......But......... 
It's pathetic for somebody who has lived in Canada and
claims to know the tax system and gives you major errors in
the tax rate. Your federal and provincial tax rate can never
ever add up to 38%.
The deductions allowed in Canada is much more generous than
Singapore, so your final taxable amount might not even add up to an
effective tax rate of 21.75% (federal & provincial taxes).
Canada has a more generous deduction system for income.
1) Basic personal amount C$10,320 (deduct this amount from your
C$48,000, you will drop to a lower tax bracket)
2) Moving expenses (if you move house)
3) Public transport allowance (When you take MRT and SBS, how
much do you get to deduct from your income?)
4) Interest payments on loans
5) Home renovation expenses
6) Interest paid on student loans
7) Medical expenses (When you pay that $10,000 operation in SGH,
how much do you get to deduct?)
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/5000-g/5000g-09e.pdf
For an income of C$48,000 your federal tax payable would be (did
not take into account your basic personal deduction of
C$10,320):
C$7,693
Provincial tax (British Columbia) payable would be (did not
take into account your basic personal deduction of C$10,320):
C$2,749
Effective tax rate:
21.75%
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html
Many Singaporeans don't think much, some just don't have
the mental capacity to think, that's why they are in
power.
The common mentality of folks who don't want to pay higher taxes
is, they are selfish and want to keep everything they made for
themselves, without a care for the less fortunate folks. They also
tend to assume that everybody who can't find work is leeching
on their hard earned money.
If what you say is really true, then there must be a mass exodus
from Canada and Hong Kongers who flock there before 1997 must be
all morons.
If what you say is really true, then the net migration in Canada
would be negative as the taxes are so high that everybody would be
moving and nobody would be moving in.
"Immigrants made up the vast majority of the 1.6 million new
Canadians between 2001 and 2006, giving the country the highest
population growth rate among G8 countries, new census data released
Tuesday suggests.
Canada's population stands at 31,612,897, with a growth rate
of 5.4 per cent during that five-year period.
That's up from the four per cent growth rate in the
previous census period between 1996 and 2001.
Roughly 1.2
million new immigrants made up the bulk of the population growth
outlined in the latest census, while the country's native-born
population increased by 400,000."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/13/census-canada.html
This is my first and final post, I have no intention to engage
anybody in any useless arguments.
Sigh, another small boy googler who thinks he can know
everything from the internet ? 
Okie, here goes.
Firstly, I was working at the province of saskatchewan, why
there ? cos I graduated from there, and the canadian space agency
is there, my ex company made something that had something to do
with that place. You'll also notice that the province of
saskatchewan, unfortunately for me, had one of the highest
provincial tax rates in Canada. Secondly, if you click back the tax
rates for previous years, taxes were higher then than in 2010. I
graduated in 2006, working there till the end of 2007. However, my
application to convert my visa from a student's visa to a work visa
in-country, as anyone who's ever done it before would attest, took
four months. So my pay was withheld and backdated till feb 2007.
And the first time I actually filed any taxes was in 2007. As
anyone who's studied in canada would tell you, that's a mistake,
cos the tax office would have no records of you.
Why is this a bad idea ? Cos over there, they'll tax your money
from your paycheck first and pay you back your deductables AFTER
you've filed your taxes later on. With the taxes and living
expenses so high people would go broke if they had to squeeze 10,
20k out later on. That also means that with no previous records to
work on, they'd assume that you have, no income. That also means
that for the year 2007, I got no tax rebates, or rather, I still
have approximately $9720 then,(not $10320) which is stuck in the
canadian tax service, which I am unable to claim back since I am no
longer in country nor with a valid work visa, having returned to
Singapore by the tax filing of 2008. That also means that for my
combined income for 2007, I had to pay the full tax rates ranging
from federal of 15 to 22%, and provincial of 11 to 13%. Coupled
with my CPP and provincial EI, both of which are black holes I'll
never see again, since I am not a canadian nor a PR. almost 38% of
my income disappears before I get my net for the month, throughout
2007, savvy ?
But yes, granted, if you deduct the CPP (their CPF, at only 5%,
from employees only) for canadians, they'll feel slightly less
pinch than I did. Would you like a pat for that ?
And while I cannot comment on the lifestyle choices of hongkies
who chose to flock there (and to so many other points of the globe
before 97 for that matter), makes them moronic or not, if tax rates
is the core criteria for migrating, then you are, indeed, a
moron.
Have you filed your Singapore taxes for the year already ?
Though I strongly suspect you have yet to have to file any sort of
taxes at all. Know why I say this ? Cos while it is true that there
are a lot more personal deductables (so much so that calculating
personal taxes requires a chap from H&R block there most of the
time), The overall tax rates in Singapore is still waaaaaay
waaaaaay below even the lowest 2010 british columbia tax rates you
just googled up. You have to make more than 300k a year in
Singapore before you can even approach the lowest personal tax
brackets of BC or Alberta. Know how I could have paid more taxes in
a month than my father does in a year ? why don't you further
exercise your googling skills and find out Singapore's tax rates ?
or you eyes wouldn't allow you to see, what your mind doesn't want
to ?
And just before you think you've discovered paradise on earth,
despite the taxes, why don't you work out the cost of housing in
say, british columbia, since you seem to have a penchant for the
place. google for the prices of houses there, from point2.com, one
of my classmates works for that company now. he makes C$50k, tell
me, over a 40yr mortgage, how much mortgage would he have to pay at
an average 6% interest, and how much would he have left after his
"low" income tax ?
