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Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Avoid the OAS Recovery Tax
It’s smart tax planning for retirees to arrange their income to avoid this clawback if possible. Some strategies to review are: Income split with your spouse/CLP (Common Law Partner) Tax effective non-registered investments Review the start date of your RRIF Use the younger spouse/CLP’s age for RRIF payments Use TFSAs

Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Keep Track of Health & Medical Expenses
A smart tax strategy during retirement is to keep track of your medical expenses and take advantage of any credits that may be available.

Avoid a huge $$$$ mistake. Check your beneficiary designations now!
A recent article from CBC, Halifax women calling for more protections on RRSPs after husband’s sudden death by Emma Davie, reviews what can happen if you don’t have correct beneficiary designations on your registered plans. The article explained that the husband in the story had named his mother as the

Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Income Splitting
Income tax is one of the largest expenses any retiree has. A smart tax strategy to reduce a family’s overall tax burden is to split the income. This means to shift income from a spouse or common law partner (CLP) who is in a higher tax bracket to one who

Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
My kids are 18 and 20, does setting up a new Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) still make sense? Excerpts from the Book – Preserving Wealth – written by Jack Lumsden, MBA, CFP® A new client asked if it still made sense to set up a new RESP for his

Who should you name as Executor?
Excerpts from the Book – Preserving Wealth – written by Jack Lumsden, MBA, CFP® A common question I received as an advisor is whom should we name as executor in our Wills? The true answer is that it depends on your situation. It usually ends up based on how complicated
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Avoid the OAS Recovery Tax
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Keep Track of Health & Medical Expenses
Avoid a huge $$$$ mistake. Check your beneficiary designations now!
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Income Splitting
Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
Who should you name as Executor?
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