Personal Tax Planning Services In Burlington, Oakville & Hamilton
You have worked hard for your wealth, and we work hard to help you protect it.
Our financial advisors will provide you with a tax plan and strategy to leverage tools and resources efficiently. As part of your wealth management plan, we offer financial planning so that you may take advantage of all the tax benefits available to you and limit your liabilities.
Success starts with a solid foundation. Personal tax planning is no exception. Grow and preserve your wealth with a smarter tax strategy.
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Our Personal Tax Planning Services
High-net worth individuals can be targeted by the CRA. Working with our team on a personal tax plan will alleviate tax burdens and help you design your budgeting and wealth building strategies.
The big picture
We will arrange to assess all of your current assets, future earning potential, retirement goals and estate planning interests to develop a personalized tax plan and strategy.
Benefits Of Effective Tax Planning
Tax planning is an ongoing process that evolves with you as you build your estate and net-worth. By working with a team who understands your goals you benefit from years of experience and expertise in effective tax planning strategies.
Income Splitting
The CRA has acknowledged and provided tools for individuals to leverage income splitting. This may include structured family trusts or loans that can be utilized for investments and achieve some tax savings.
Family Trusts
Establishing family trusts may be a good way to alleviate the high marginal tax rates and facilitate wealth transfers for high-net worth individuals.
Registered Plans
Optimize tax savings with personal tax planning that incorporates RRSPs, RESPs, TFSAs and RRIFs. These tools are a good way to reduce your marginal tax rate, build wealth through investments, provide for college/university bound children and retirement.
For business owners
Business owners will find there are additional tools available such as Individual Pension Plans (IPP). An IPP is an RRSP alternative that offers several benefits such as tax deductions to your business, deferred compensation that can grow as investments, and retirement benefits.
Who Needs Personal Tax Planning?
High-net worth individuals and families who are seeking advice and support in wealth protection and succession planning will find value and expertise with SB Partners.
Diverse portfolios, properties, investments and business interests can have significant implications on personal taxes. We work with you to ensure you and your family are optimizing the tax benefits of your assets.
FAQs
There are three types of tax planning.
- Range tax planning which focuses on each fiscal year as an independent entity at the start and end of the year.
- Permissive tax planning incorporates legal frameworks
- Purposive tax planning that focuses on a specific goal
Tax planning is part of a wealth management process. By creating a tax strategy the tax payer is able to preserve wealth over a period of time by making strategic decisions.
Reducing tax liability within a legal framework is considered tax avoidance.
Your personal income can be derived from a number of different sources including employment, pensions, investments, benefits and more. A full list of all the types of income considered by the CRA can be found on the CRA website.
Income will fall into one of two categories: taxable amounts and non-taxable amounts.
Non-taxable amounts include:
- most gifts and inheritances
- most life insurance received after a person’s death
- most lottery winnings
- most amounts received from a TFSA
- amounts exempt from tax under section 87 of the Indian Act
- amounts paid by Canada or a an allied country (if the amount is not taxable in that country) for disability or death of a war veteran due to war service
- GST/HST Credit
- Child Care Benefit (CCB) payments
- compensation received by a province or territory if you were the victim of a criminal act or a motor vehicle accident
- most types of strike pay received by your union
For more details please visit the webpage “Amounts that are not taxed” on the CRA website.
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