conversation: User (Pyro_Cat): "Hello Reddit.\nI am just doing my taxes with turbotax and I entered a T4A from an employer for $780. My tax refund dropped by $383.84. That's 49% tax rate?? What the heck?\n\nI saw a post from a year ago that seemed to touch on this but it was focused on Withholding by employers. This is not that..\n\nAny help? At this stage in my tax entry I am at an income of about $25,000/year.\n\n*edit: Canadian"
  Self: "Canadian taxes are crap lol. Its likely that the 780 extra put you in a higher tax bracket. So you would have to pay more tax on the entire amount you made last year not just 49% on that $780."
  bsievers (bsievers): "That's not how progressive tax brackets work. Only the amount *in that bracket* is taxed at that rate. "
  ironicosity (ironicosity): "Not to mention that OP should be in a low bracket if he only made $25k. \n\n[This website](http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html) says that Canadians are taxed 15% on the first $44k."
  