Mary has an $85,769 adjusted gross income and $10,000 of non-refundable tax credits. She is a resident of Manitoba. Use the 2008 tax rates.
In solving the problem,when your taxable income lies exactly on the border of the 22% bracket ( so that adding one dollar takes it to the beginning of the net bracket), choose the next bracket i.e. 26% as the marginal rate for your federal tax, then also add the marginal rate from the last bracket of the provincial tax in order to get the overall marginal tax rate.
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1 Calculate the total tax payable
2 Calculate the average tax rate
3 Calculate the marginal tax rate