Statistics Canada says more people reported investment income on their tax returns in 2004, and the amount they declared was also up.
The agency says more than 7.5 million people reported just under $31.3 billion of income from investments in 2004 on tax returns filed this spring.
The number reporting investment income rose two per cent, while the income itself was up 1.8 per cent.
Those increases followed three consecutive years of declines in the number of persons reporting such income, and two years of declines in the amounts.
The agency says the proportion of taxfilers reporting investment income remained relatively stable at 33 per cent last year, after declines since 2000.
The median investment income reported in 2004 was $460, which means half of those reporting investment income reported more than $460 and half reported less.
Among metropolitan areas, the highest median investment income was in Victoria at $780, followed by Vancouver at $580 and St. Catharines-Niagara in Ontario at $510.
"Last year, 3.1 million investors reported $24.3 billion of dividend and interest income," Statistics Canada says. "The number of investors rose 6.3 per cent, while the income they reported went up 4.6 per cent.
"On the other hand, the number of savers declined 0.9 per cent to 4.4 million in 2004. This was a much smaller percentage decline than in the previous two years."
Interest income reported fell 7.1 per cent to $6.9 billion, about the same decline as in 2003.
