Recent Developments in the Low Income Cutoffs Prepared by :
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This paper outlines the results of an investigation into three aspects of the low income cutoffs: the behaviour of a proposed “annually updated” low income series, the addition of payroll taxes, and restructuring of the matrix of 35 cutoffs. The research was first presented to Statistics Canada’s National Statistics Council in November 2000.
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