Carbon pricing rebates
Proceeds of the federal fuel charge returned to individuals, small businesses, farming businesses and provinces and territories.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$16.2B
3.4% of the $474.4B of federal program spending reported by theme, across 1 programs.
Cost per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). It is an allocation of cost, not a tax bill.
Spending programs
Actual spending by program in 2024–25: operating costs, capital and payments to others, as reported by each department and reconciled to the Public Accounts. Select a program for its history and cost per taxpayer.
Grants and contributions
Payments to provinces, organizations and individuals in 2024–25, by transfer payment program, from the Public Accounts. These are a different cut of the same money as the programs above, so the two lists are not added together. Select one to see its largest recipients.
(S) Distribution of fuel charge (Canada Carbon Rebate for individuals) under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and section 122.8 of the Income Tax Act
Canada Revenue Agency (Adm. Activities)
$12.7B
82.0% of list$423per tax filer$308per person(S) Distribution of fuel charges (Canada Carbon Rebate for small businesses) under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and section 127.421 of the Income Tax Act
Canada Revenue Agency (Adm. Activities)
$2.6B
16.6% of list$85.73per tax filer$62.41per person(S) Distribution of fuel charges (to farming businesses) under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and section 127.42 of the Income Tax Act
Canada Revenue Agency (Adm. Activities)
$167M
1.1% of list$5.59per tax filer$4.07per person(S) Distribution of fuel charges (to provinces and territories) under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
Canada Revenue Agency (Adm. Activities)
$49.9M
0.3% of list$1.66per tax filer$1.21per person
Sources and basis
- GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada. Program spending is reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote for every organization and year. It excludes Employment Insurance benefits, the Canada Child Benefit and other items that are not appropriated, so it differs from the budget tables.
- Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Themes group programs by purpose, not by department. Each program is assigned to one theme by a published, reviewable rule set.