Working income tax benefit CRA is working to increase uptake by CRA is expanding its support for free volunteer tax-preparation services and by scaling up a 2016 pilot project in New Brunswick, which highlighted the program to persons likely eligible for the program and was judged to have had a "positive impact." Working income tax benefit The working income tax benefit (WITB) is a refundable tax credit in Canada, similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the United States. Introduced in 2007, it offers tax relief to working low-income individuals and encourages others to enter the workforce. The WITB has been expanded
Legal history of income tax in the United States (1916), the 1913 Act was ruled to be constitutional. A separate excise tax was also imposed on corporations. Subsequent legal actions were concerned with what should be counted as "income" under the 1913 Act. In "Eisner v. Macomber" (1920), the Supreme Court ruled that proportionate stock dividends were not taxable as income, on the grounds that the dividend income was not "severable" from the capital holding from which it was derived. Later decisions, however, have tended to limit this view of "severability," and to uphold the federal statutes as exertions of the power of Congress to tax. The first attempt