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Pages tagged "TFSA"


People maxing out TFSAs “in virtual free fall;” new $10,000 contribution limit will disproportionately benefit those of higher income and wealth

Posted on In the News by Broadbent Institute · June 29, 2015 9:00 AM

 

 

OTTAWA--Even before the Conservative government increased the contribution limit for Tax-Free Savings Accounts, the proportion of people maxing out their TFSAs had dropped dramatically from 64 per cent to under 18 per cent. Moreover, participation and maximization patterns by age and income suggest that asset shifting and income splitting are the primary sources of contributions rather than new saving, a new Broadbent Institute study has found.

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Budget 2015: Not as balanced as it looks

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · April 23, 2015 9:00 AM

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Budget 2015 is, surprise, primarily a political document that extolls the government’s record and highlights tax cuts, but does almost nothing to deal with rising inequality or to shape the trajectory of the struggling economy.

As expected, annual contributions to Tax Free Savings Accounts are to be almost doubled to $10,000 per year, which will cost over $300 million in lost annual revenues within five years. The increase will eventually all but eliminate taxation of investment income, to the primary benefit of the very affluent earning more than $250,000 per year who collect almost half of all capital gains and dividends subject to tax.

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Broadbent Institute Executive Director Rick Smith available to comment on 2015-16 budget

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · April 20, 2015 4:29 AM

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OTTAWA—Executive Director Rick Smith will be in Ottawa to react to the 2015-16 federal budget. The budget is widely expected to contain measures that will exacerbate economic inequality, including family income splitting and the doubling of TFSA contribution limits.

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Budget 2015-16 preview: Top 10 ways the Harper government has boosted inequality (11 actually)

Posted on News & Blogs by NationBuilder Support · April 20, 2015 3:07 AM

budget-jakerust.jpg1. Family Income Splitting

The federal government plans to spend about $2-billion per year on family income splitting that will mainly benefit high-income, traditional families with a stay at home spouse, to a maximum amount of $2,000 per year. There is no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two parent families in which both earners are in the same tax bracket, including the middle and bottom income tax brackets; these families with children under 18 represent over half of all families that are the apparent target of the scheme, according to the Broadbent Institute study, The Big Split. Meanwhile, the large savings will go to families with one partner in the top tax bracket and a stay at home spouse with a tax rate of zero. This big pre-election tax cut will directly increase income inequality.

 

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Tax-free savings plan contribution limit to double, Oliver suggests

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · April 07, 2015 10:00 AM

Les Whittington / Toronto Star

OTTAWA—A confidential letter from Finance Minister Joe Oliver all but confirms that his April 21 budget will double the contribution limit for the government’s popular tax-free savings vehicle.

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Increasing TFSA contribution limits would be a ‘ticking time bomb,’ founder warns

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · February 24, 2015 12:21 PM

Garry Marr / Financial Post

The two men who might be considered the fathers of tax-free savings accounts in Canada, now worth more than $132 billion, appear to be in disagreement over what happens next to their brainchild.

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Finally — a tax idea even worse than income-splitting

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · February 24, 2015 5:50 AM

Rhys Kesselman / iPolitics

The federal government has delivered on the first of its two major tax promises from the 2011 election campaign. Income-splitting has been extensively assessed and widely criticized for its revenue cost, its tilt toward higher-income families, and its failure to accomplish anything beneficial for the economy.

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Doubling TFSA limits would cost billions, benefit the wealthy: Reports

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · February 24, 2015 5:27 AM

Sheena Goodyear / QMI Agency

If the Tories go ahead with plans to double the contribution limit on tax-free savings accounts, it will cost the government billions of dollars and benefit only the very wealthy, two separate studies released Tuesday say.

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Tories’ TFSA promise would mainly benefit the wealthy: report

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · February 24, 2015 1:00 AM

Bill Curry / Globe and Mail

A plan to double the amount people can put in a tax-free savings account is facing new criticism that – like income splitting – it would benefit mainly the most well-off Canadians.

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Doubling TFSA limit will only help wealthy, study argues

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · February 24, 2015 12:00 AM

James Fitz-Morris / CBC News

A new study into tax-free savings accounts says there is no justification "on either economic or equity grounds" for doubling the contribution limit without conditions.

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