Provincial profile · 2026 tax year
Nunavut marginal tax brackets
Nunavut's 4-bracket personal income-tax schedule for 2026, and what its rates mean for your RRSP-versus-TFSA decision.
- 11.50%
- Top provincial rate
- #13/13
- By top rate
- 4
- Brackets
- 44.50%
- Combined top rate
Nunavut vs all provinces by top marginal rate
Where Nunavut's 2026 top provincial rate sits among every jurisdiction in the PlainRRSP corpus (higher = more RRSP deferral value per dollar)
12% Top 100% in the bottom 1% of 13 provinces
Jurisdictions, banded by top provincial marginal rate
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more provinces. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source Provincial finance-ministry schedules · 2026-05-20
Where Nunavut sits by bracket count
Nunavut has 4 provincial brackets among 13 jurisdictions (schedule inventory, not a rate-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the top-rate charts below.
Nunavut vs all provinces by bracket count
Where this province's schedule length sits among every tracked jurisdiction
4 11th of 13 higher than 2 of 13 provinces
Jurisdictions, banded by provincial bracket count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more provinces. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source CRA provincial tax schedules · 2026-05-20
Nunavut's top marginal personal income-tax rate for 2026 is 11.50%, on top of the federal schedule.
Nunavut (NU) levies 4 provincial income-tax brackets in 2026, from 4.00% on the lowest band to 11.50% on the top band. Stacked on the federal top rate of 33.00% above $258,482, the combined top marginal rate reaches 44.50%. That ranks Nunavut 13 of 13 provinces and territories by top rate.
- 11.50% top provincial rate
- 44.50% combined top rate
- #13/13 by top rate
- 4 brackets
The verdict
Every dollar a top-bracket Nunavut resident defers into an RRSP shelters 44.50% in combined federal-and-provincial tax - the lowest combined top rate in the country, just behind Ontario.
- 11.50%
- Nunavut top rate
- 33.00%
- federal top rate (above $258,482)
- 44.50%
- combined top marginal rate
- #13/13
- national rank by top rate
Combined rate = the province's top marginal rate plus the federal top rate, both rendered live from the published schedules.
2026 provincial bracket schedule
Source: Nunavut2026 provincial income-tax bracket schedule. Bar length scales to the top provincial rate.
| Bracket | Income range | Provincial rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0– $54,707 | 4.00% |
| 2 | $54,707– $109,413 | 7.00% |
| 3 | $109,413– $177,881 | 9.00% |
| 4 | $177,881 | 11.50% |
Source: Nunavut2026 personal income-tax schedule - official publication. Federal brackets from the Canada Revenue Agency, 2026 indexed schedule.
Your combined marginal rate by income
Nunavut's provincial rate, added to the federal rate at your income, is what an RRSP deferral is actually worth to you.
$50,000 income
18.0%
14.0% federal + 4.0%NU
$100,000 income
27.5%
20.5% federal + 7.0%NU
$150,000 income
35.0%
26.0% federal + 9.0%NU
$250,000 income
40.5%
29.0% federal + 11.5%NU
Your true marginal rate, dollar by dollar
The combined federal-and-Nunavut marginal rate is a staircase, each step is a bracket threshold. Hover or tap anywhere to read the exact rate at that income.
Source: Nunavut + Canada Revenue Agency published 2026 marginal-rate schedules. Combined rate = provincial + federal at each income.
Combined rate = the federal marginal rate plus Nunavut's, at each income, rendered from the 2026 published schedules.
How Nunavut ranks, top rate across Canada
Nunavut's top provincial rate of 11.50% ranks #13 of 13 jurisdictions - below 12 higher-rate provinces. See the distribution chart above for the full national histogram.
Nunavut's tax-structure shape
Nunavut's position on the entry-rate-vs-top-rate map below shows how progressive its schedule is, the further upper-left, the wider the RRSP deferral wedge.
Source: provincial finance-ministry 2026 bracket schedules, compiled by PlainRRSP. Dashed lines mark the median entry and top rate.
Published provincial schedule
What this means for RRSP vs TFSA in NunavutNU · Nunavut2026 · 4 brackets
Nunavut · top 11.50% · combined 44.50% · #13/13
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- RRSPcombined 44.5%
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- BOOK@$100k 27.5%
- COMBgap 17.0%
Figures use Nunavut's published 2026 provincial schedule stacked on the federal brackets: reference math, not a personal tax return. Read with Nunavut → · Model your own →
Nunavut in the top-rate neighbourhood
Nationwide provinces with similar marginal rates
Two data-derived peer sets for Nunavut: headline top-rate neighbors and $100,000-income rate neighbors (distinct comparison neighborhoods).
Similar top marginal rate
Nearest 2026 provincial top rates nationwide (11.50% here).
- Ontario · top rate 13.16%
- Northwest Territories · top rate 14.05%
- Saskatchewan · top rate 14.50%
- Alberta · top rate 15.00%
Similar rate at $100,000 income
Nearest mid-career provincial marginal rates at $100,000 of income (7.00% provincial here).
- Northwest Territories · 8.60% at $100k
- Yukon · 9.00% at $100k
- Ontario · 9.15% at $100k
- Alberta · 10.00% at $100k
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on published 2026 bracket tables; corpus ranks above sort the full 13-jurisdiction set.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Nunavut sit in Canada's provincial tax distribution?
- Among 13 provinces and territories in the PlainRRSP corpus, Nunavut's 2026 top marginal rate of 11.50% ranks #13 - among the lowest top rates nationally. Combined with the federal top rate, the deferral ceiling is 44.50%.
- What is the top marginal tax rate in Nunavut for 2026?
- The top marginal provincial rate in Nunavut for 2026 is 11.50%. Combined with the federal top rate of 33.00% above $258,482, the combined top marginal rate is 44.50%.
- How many tax brackets does Nunavut have compared with other provinces?
- Nunavut has 4 provincial brackets - rank 11 of 13 by schedule length. Bracket count measures schedule complexity, not rate height; see the top-rate distribution above for deferral value.
- Where does Nunavut bracket data come from?
- The schedule is rendered from Nunavut's published 2026 bracket table, see the linked source above. Federal brackets are uniform across Canada and come from the Canada Revenue Agency.
Reference data, not financial advice - consult a licensed CPA or CFP before acting. See the methodology for what this page does and doesn't model.
Every figure on PlainRRSP is rendered directly from official Canada Revenue Agency registered-plan limits and each province's published marginal-rate schedule, no number is typed in by an editor. Nunavut's bracket schedule and the federal brackets are rendered live from the published government tables. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the public data change log, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026 tax year.