Viewpoints about Tax strategies
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Common TFSA mistakes
Tax-Free Savings Accounts are a powerful tool for growing savings tax free. How to avoid common – and costly – mistakes, and harness their full potential.
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2023 tax planning tips: a quick reference guide
Our end-year tax planning guide gives you effective tax-saving tips, so you pay less tax in Canada. These effective tax planning strategies will help reduce taxes for individuals, you and your family, and for your business.
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Building financial fortitude: tax and insurance opportunities for high-net-worth investors
Manulife Private Wealth hosted a session to present scenarios where high-net-worth investors may benefit from life insurance and the tax opportunities from doing so.
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Individual pension plans and the family business
For business owners, an IPP can be a smart RRSP alternative. IPPs offer maximum pension income and maximum tax relief, and can be included in a succession plan.
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2023 tax rate card for Canada
Tax planning for 2023? Combined federal and provincial marginal tax rates and tax brackets by taxable income source, plus some of the most common non-refundable tax credits, EI and CPP contribution amounts, and OAS and CPP benefit amounts, are all found in one place.
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Portfolio reviews: capital gains considerations
Four considerations that you should think about when rebalancing non-registered portfolios and potentially triggering a capital gain.
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Advisors can be the quarterback for a client’s estate plan
No one is more clued into what’s going on with their clients, says Manulife Investment Management tax expert
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Cottage or home: which should be a principal residence?
Which property is best used as your principal residence for tax purposes? If you own more than one property, you have choices and may want to look at the tax consequences of claiming a cottage or other property as your principal residence. Learn more about your options and how to calculate the principal residence exemption.
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Federal Budget 2023—no big changes but maximum minimums!
A summary of the 2023 federal government’s budget highlighting the changes delivered by the Liberal government on March 28, 2023. Review our analysis of the key corporate and personal measures and how they impact you.
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Budget 2022—housing ambitions funded by big finance
A summary of the 2022 federal government’s budget highlighting the changes delivered by the Liberal government on April 7, 2022. Review our analysis of the key corporate and personal measures and how they impact you.
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