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Employer Health Tax, in plain English.
Employer Health Tax is a provincial payroll tax charged to employers on total remuneration paid in a given province, with Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec each running their own version under their own name and rules. It is employer-paid, so nothing is deducted from employee pay. Thresholds, exemptions, and rates are set provincially. Workzoom calculates it from the same payroll run that produced the remuneration.
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How Employer Health Tax works.
EHT is assessed on the employer, not withheld from the employee, which puts it in a different category from CPP or EI. Each province sets its own exemption threshold and rate band, and most operate on a sliding scale where the rate rises with total payroll. Associated or related employers generally have to share a single exemption rather than each claiming it, which catches groups that run several legal entities. Because the tax follows the province where the employee reports to work, multi-province employers calculate it separately per jurisdiction.
Where Employer Health Tax goes wrong.
- The exemption-sharing rule is the expensive surprise.
- A group of associated companies that each claim a full exemption can face reassessment years later.
- The second trap is assuming the tax follows head office. It follows the permanent establishment the employee works from, so a remote hire in another province can create a filing obligation the employer did not plan for.
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How Employer Health Tax runs on Workzoom.
Employer Health Tax is part of the Workzoom Payroll Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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