LETTER – American university students pay their share of taxes
Re: Editorial, Why international students should and must pay more, Jan. 15, 2019
As a U.S. student, this is pretty offensive, though it is not trying to be. It suggests that U.S. students don’t pay taxes.
In fact we pay more in taxes individually than most other international students and other Canadian students as we are not eligible for certain tax exemptions and must count other things as income due to FATCA and FBAR.
Furthermore, I come from a state where Canadians who graduate high school within my state can get in state tuition; the same opportunity is not afforded U.S. citizens with disability or dead parents (Canadians don’t face these disqualifying factors). It is very hurtful to deny these very real hardships faced by many.
MATTHEW DOUGLAS BUTLER
FATCA and FBAR are both taxes paid to the US treasury. The argument for charging foreign students more is that they (and their parents) don’t pay taxes in Canada, not that they don’t pay taxes in their own country. I can’t understand the penultimate sentence–is the writer saying Canadian students who attended a US high school are treated better by US universities than American students who are disabled or whose parents are deceased?