That sucks, but to be fair that’s not really the situation. The basic personal amount is deducted from your income, so you pay near-zero tax.
You should be paying negative tax (i.e. getting a universal basic income), but you’re not really paying any tax now.
Edit: the basic personal amount is increasing to 15.7K, so you’ll be taxed at 10% of $300 if you don’t have any other deductions at all, to the total tune of $30-ish.
That sucks, but to be fair that’s not really the situation. The basic personal amount is deducted from your income, so you pay near-zero tax.
You should be paying negative tax (i.e. getting a universal basic income), but you’re not really paying any tax now.
Edit: the basic personal amount is increasing to 15.7K, so you’ll be taxed at 10% of $300 if you don’t have any other deductions at all, to the total tune of $30-ish.