Les governments, ensemble ou un à un.
The words on this page: 14 definitions, including 5 acronyms, no jargon
- City
- On this site, "city" means ALL the governments that serve a person who lives there: national, regional and municipal together. When we write "Montreal", that set is what we mean.
- Municipality
- The city hall alone, and nothing else. Its revenue, its spending, its debt. That is a small part of what a resident carries: the rest comes from the other two governments.
- Tier
- One of the governments that administer you. Here there are up to three: national, regional (province, state, Land…) and municipal. Each collects its own taxes and pays its own services.
- Per capita
- The total amount divided by the number of people. Note: each government is divided by the population of ITS territory: the national one by the whole country, the city by its residents only.
- Resident public footprint
- Our way of adding the three governments to give an order of magnitude. This is not an official account: these are three calculations on three different populations, placed end to end.
- Scope
- What is counted and what is not. "MUNICIPAL ONLY" counts only the municipality; "all governments" adds the province and the federal tier. Two very different amounts can both be right.
- Vintage
- The financial year of the figure: the fiscal year the report covers. It is not always the same from one government to another, and the page writes it each time.
- Own revenue
- Money a government collects itself: taxes, levies, fees, fines. What it receives from another government is excluded, otherwise the same tax would be counted twice.
- Transfer
- Money one government pays to another: for example Ottawa paying Quebec for health. This is not a new tax: it is a tax already collected, moved.
- RPC
- Canada Pension Plan: the public pension scheme, outside Quebec
- RRQ
- Quebec Pension Plan: Quebec's counterpart to the CPP
- PSAS
- Public Sector Accounting Standards: the Canadian public-sector accounting standard
- GFSM
- Government Finance Statistics Manual: the IMF standard that defines how to consolidate public accounts
- S13
- the European code for all of a country's general government, every layer together
St. John's Government Stack
The public administrations around St residents. John's.
Canada: federal activity in Newfoundland and Labrador · Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities · St. John's
Government StackCity only
Les public finances autour of a resident de St. John's.
Indicateur du Stack, construit à partir des moyennes par habitant (Canada: activité fédérale en Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ÷ 0.55M, Newfoundland and Labrador: province, HEALTH, éducation et autres municipalités ÷ 0.55M, St. John's ÷ 110,525). Ce n'est pas la dépense mesurée dans St. John's, ni une consolidation GFSM, ni une facture fiscale personnelle.
Spending: 38,117 CAD per capita
Own revenue: 29,871 CAD per capita
Named ledger residual: -2,692 CAD per capita (row visible, pas absorbée).
Couverture du Stack: 3,750 $/hab de paliers non displayed (gouvernements autochtones, RPC/RRQ, selon le registre); résidu nommé du registre: -2,692 $/hab.
CALCULATIONS AND EVIDENCEFinancial analysis, calculations and evidenceOpen calculations and evidenceReplier
Sous ce bouton: le contrôle de plafond, ce qui ressort des comptes, le solde de chaque palier, le bilan par palier et la qualité de la fiche. Each figure porte son scope (city, pile des paliers, province, aire urbaine ou pays), son exercice et son unité. D'où vient chaque montant est écrit plus haut, au source ledger.
Reconciliation ledger (ceiling)
- Spending footprint shown: 38,117 CAD/res.
- Ceiling (provincial public sector, city denominator): 40,809 CAD/res.
- Tiers non displayed (autochtones, RPC/RRQ, according to registre): 3,750 CAD/res.
- Named ledger residual: 2,692 CAD/res. (row visible, jamais forcée à zéro)
Lecture: empreinte 38,117 + paliers non displayed 3,750 ± résidu 2,692 ↔ plafond 40,809 CAD/hab.
L’gap is named, jamais absorbé dans le total affiché.
How to read this check
Le plafond est la dépense consolidée de TOUTES les administrations dans la province (StatCan 36-10-0450), recalculée au dénominateur de la ville: le secteur hors ville sur la population provinciale, la ville sur la sienne. L'empreinte affichée peut le dépasser parce qu'une part des impôts fédéraux perçus ici est dépensée ailleurs au Canada: cette part est affichée comme cause, pas cachée. Elle peut aussi rester dessous: les gouvernements autochtones et le RPC/RRQ ne sont pas des paliers displayed.
Who governs here: 4 institution(s) · 1 non additionnable(s)
| Tier | Revenue/res. | Spending/res. | Balance/res. | Fiscal year | Status | Source | Calcul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAD 12,376 | CAD 13,255 | −CAD 879 | 2024-25 | AUDITEDValue from audited financial statements or a final official accounting return. | API | revenue 511,000 mn · spending 547,300 mn · balance -36,300 mn ÷ 41,288,599 hab | |
| CAD 18,953 | CAD 19,496 | −CAD 543 | 2024-25 | AUDITEDValue from audited financial statements or a final official accounting return. | API | revenue 10,365 mn · spending 10,662 mn · balance -297 mn ÷ 546,869 hab | |
| CAD 3,493 | CAD 3,101 | CAD 393 | 2024 | AUDITEDValue from audited financial statements or a final official accounting return. | document | revenue 386 mn · spending 343 mn · balance 43 mn ÷ 110,525 hab | |
| Resident public footprint (Spending by category) | CAD 29,871 | CAD 38,117 | −CAD 8,246 | by tier | not published | footprint GovXRay | La même formule que Dépenses par catégorie (G = T + D, module consolide): all-purpose spending G 38,117 − own-source revenue T 29,871 = 8,246 CAD/res.. NE PAS additionner avec les lignes par palier: chacune divise par SA population et porte SON fiscal year; their sum is not the resident's deficit. |
What "receiving" means: 19% of this spending is services delivered or transfers; the rest is an accounting share
Fact receipt
Claim Stack: aggregate_with_named_residual
Indicateur du Stack, construit à partir des moyennes par habitant (Canada: activité fédérale en Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ÷ 0.55M, Newfoundland and Labrador: province, HEALTH, éducation et autres municipalités ÷ 0.55M, St. John's ÷ 110,525). Ce n'est pas la dépense mesurée dans St. John's, ni une consolidation GFSM, ni une facture fiscale personnelle.
Couverture du Stack: 3,750 $/hab de paliers non displayed (gouvernements autochtones, RPC/RRQ, selon le registre); résidu nommé du registre: -2,692 $/hab.
Named residual: -2,692 CAD/res.
- Public expenditure per capita (indicateur du Stack): 38,117 CAD/hab · Stack: Canada: federal activity in Newfoundland and Labrador · Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities · St. John's
- Recettes propres par habitant (indicateur du Stack): 29,871 CAD/hab · Stack: Canada: federal activity in Newfoundland and Labrador · Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities · St. John's
- Tiers non displayed (registre): 3,750 CAD/res. · hors Stack affiché
WHERE THE FIGURES COME FROMOpen the official receipt, tier by tier
Each tier is a menu: closed, you read its name, vintage and Population; open, its line items. Each row is one line from the official accounts of un tier: tax, levy, contribution or deficit: divided by the Population of ce tier. Federal tax ÷ 41 million Canadians is not what a Montrealer pays; property tax ÷ 1.8 million Montrealers is closer. Native currency first. Transfers change height because the payer and the recipient do not share a Population: same money, two denominators.
Phone: the line, its kind, the calculation. The source note is on the calculation hover.
Canada: federal activity in Newfoundland and Labrador7 line items in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income taxes (personal and corporate) | revenue | 3.3 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 6,100 | 3.3 G$ collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Taxes on production and imports | revenue | 1.3 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 2,388 | 1.3 G$ collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Contributions (assurance-emploi) | revenue | 473 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 865 | 473 M$ collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Investment income | revenue | 811 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 1,483 | 811 M$ collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Sales of goods and services | revenue | 208 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 380 | 208 M$ collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). collected in Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Other revenue | revenue | 8 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 15 | 8 M$: transfers from households and non-residents, capital transfers. transfers from households and non-residents, capital transfers |
| Deficit (federal share) | deficit (borrowing) | 3.8 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 7,011 | 3.8 G$: Ottawa dépense plus en Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador qu'il n'y perçoit. Ottawa spends more in Newfoundland and Labrador than it collects there |
Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities8 line items in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income taxes (personal and corporate) | revenue | 2.5 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 4,654 | 2.5 G$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). Dedans: particuliers 2.0 G$, sociétés 565 M$. province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). Dedans: particuliers 2.0 G$, sociétés 565 M$ |
| Sales, property and other taxes | revenue | 3.1 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 5,760 | 3.1 G$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). Dedans: general sales tax 1.6 G$, property tax (municipal and school) 444 M$, excise on fuel, tobacco, alcohol and cannabis 283 M$, other taxes on production and products 829 M$. province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). Dedans: general sales tax 1.6 G$, property tax (municipal and school) 444 M$, excise on fuel, tobacco, alcohol and cannabis 283 M$, other taxes on production and products 829 M$ |
| Social contributions | revenue | 166 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 304 | 166 M$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Fees and sales of services | revenue | 1.4 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 2,593 | 1.4 G$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Investment income | revenue | 1.1 G$ ÷ 0.55 M = 2,096 | 1.1 G$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Permits, fees and other household payments | revenue | 68 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 124 | 68 M$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Payments from NPOs | revenue | 3 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 5 | 3 M$: province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). province and Local sector, Newfoundland and Labrador (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024) |
| Deficit (Newfoundland and Labrador and Local sector) | deficit (borrowing) | 719 M$ ÷ 0.55 M = 1,315 | 719 M$: 2024 fiscal-year balance. 2024 fiscal-year balance |
St. John's1 line item in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggregated own-source revenue | revenue | 343 M$ ÷ 110,525 = 3,104 | 343 M$: total revenue minus published transfers; the municipal source does not break this total down further. total revenue minus published transfers; the municipal source does not break this total down further |
Transfers between tiers2 line items in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada: federal activity in Newfoundland and Labrador → Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities | intergovernmental transfer | 2.5 G$ · 4,553 → 4,553 /res. | 0.55 M → 0.55 M · Canada → Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.5 G$ to the province + 11 M$ directly to municipalities. Each flow is reported at the same amount by payer and recipient (StatCan 36-10-0450, 2024). Counting these dollars also as federal spending would count them twice: they reappear on the lower tiers. |
| Newfoundland and Labrador: province, health, education and other municipalities → St. John's | intergovernmental transfer | 43 M$ · 79 → 389 /res. | 0.55 M → 110,525 · Newfoundland and Labrador → St. John's: 43 M$ of transfers (consolidated FS (PSAS), fiscal year 2024: https://www.stjohns.ca/2024_Consolidated-Financial-Statements_City-of-St.-John's.pdf). 389 $/résident. |
Reference years: paliers fédéral et provincial 2024 ; St. John's 2024 . Les transferts municipaux (43 M$) sont publiés toutes administrations confondues: le ruban les fait transiter par l'ensemble provincial-local sans prétendre identifier le payeur. La ventilation fonctionnelle municipale n'est pas publiée par la source: le total est affiché, aucun prorata n'est inventé.