Tax Minimization
Who likes doing taxes, raise your hand. If you enjoy doing taxes you are likely an accountant, or you are one of a very select group who enjoys anything to do with numbers. Most of us would put completing our tax returns on the same level as going to the dentist. What may be worse than…
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One of the more interesting Canadian-specific investment tax strategies available is flow through shares. I’ve written several articles over the years on how flow through shares work, what they are, their associated advantages. As I began to update my knowledge on these unique investment tools, I decided to combine the piecemeal articles that I had…
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Are you curious about how investing taxes are calculated on dividends, interest, and capital gains across the various accounts in your portfolio? I am by no means a tax expert, but I do have enough knowledge to give general guidelines on how you can figure out your own investing taxes and prioritize your subsequent investments.…
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A couple of years ago, I wrote about income splitting strategies to help reduce family taxes in the scenario that one spouse makes significantly more income than the other. Strategies such as: Contributing to the lower-income spouses TFSA (no attribution rules for TFSA contributions); Maintaining separate bank accounts where the higher income spouse pays for…
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In the Summer of 2017, the Canadian government dropped a tax bomb on Canadian small business owners with proposed changes to how they are able to split their income and their ability to invest excess cash flow into passive investments. While they had some vague guidelines, they did not have concrete rules to wrap our heads around. …
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In the Summer of 2017, the Canadian government dropped a tax bomb on Canadian small business owners with changes to how they are able to split their income. While they had some vague guidelines, they did not have concrete rules to wrap our heads around. All we had was speculation. However, they have recently provided…
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With the mandate of leveling the playing field between the rich and the middle class, the latest proposal from the Trudeau government is to make drastic changes to the way that small business is taxed, specifically, Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPC). I will admit that as a small business owner, there are a number of…
Read MoreA portion of this article was originally written in June 2009, but relevant today due to the removal of the income splitting Family Tax Cut which allowed a family to notionally transfer up to $50,000 from the higher income spouse to the lower when filing taxes. While many will take a hit from elimination of this tax benefit…
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