This doesn&#x27;t really apply to expats, but income tax isn&#x27;t really about income, it&#x27;s about funding all the public services you use. There are problems right now in parts of Canada where wealthy people from other countries are sending their families here and staying to work in their home countries. Their families live in multimillion dollar houses and get hundreds of thousands a year in &quot;child support&quot;, but they also consume a lot of public services that they never paid into, like roads, healthcare, schools, and sometimes even welfare. Millionaires are getting welfare! It&#x27;s insane.