Poilievre pledges to cut income tax, saving average worker $900 a year

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 8:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says helium volition present an income taxation chopped that volition prevention the mean idiosyncratic astir $900 a twelvemonth if helium becomes premier minister.

"We cognize that taxation cuts make jobs and that volition assistance physique Canada's economical fortress against American threats," Poilievre said successful a video connected societal media launching the measure. 

The Conservatives accidental that they volition chopped the complaint of taxation connected the lowest taxation bracket from 15 per cent to 12.75 per cent, which volition chopped taxes individuals wage by astir $900 a year, oregon $1,800 per two-income family. 

In the video launching the measure, the Conservative person said his authorities would wage for this by eliminating authorities waste, cutting the national bureaucracy.

The measure, which represents astir a 15 per cent chopped successful the magnitude of taxation paid successful the lowest taxation bracket, comes a time aft Liberal Leader Mark Carney pledged to chopped the bottommost complaint by 1 per cent. 

Carney's taxation chopped would prevention idiosyncratic earning astatine slightest $57,375, the ceiling of the lowest taxation bracket, a small implicit $400 a year, oregon astir $800 for a dual-income family. 

The archetypal $16,129 a idiosyncratic earns is exempt from tax. 

"Canadians merit to bring location almighty paycheques for their families, and my 15% taxation chopped volition bash precisely that," Poilievre said successful a statement.