Where your tax dollar goes

FEDERAL SPENDING PLANNED $276.1 2012-13 TOTAL:

1. EI benefits include regular EI benefits, sickness, maternity, parental, compassionate care, fishing and work-sharing benefits, and employment benefits and support measures. These represent 90 per cent of total EI program expenses. The remaining EI costs relate mainly to administration and are included in direct program spending. 2. Other health and social transfers include the Wait Time Reduction Transfer and other health-related transfers. 3. Fiscal arrangements include Equalization, Territorial Formula Financing, the Youth Allowances Recovery and statutory subsidies. 4. Other major transfers to other levels of government include transitional payments; transfer protection payments in 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2012–13; payments under the 2005 Offshore Accords; the recognition of repayment by British Columbia of the transitional assistance it received from the Government of Canada for sales tax harmonization; and a provision in 2011–12 in support of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec regarding sales tax harmonization.