A good map should include your destination, itinerary, an
alternative route, the strategic points along the route and timing of your
arrival, while you avoid the pitfalls. Your
financial planning should do exactly
the same thing! Before you start your
financial planning, you must know your
destination. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. What are your goals?
2. Do you have insurance and life insurance to be
sufficient?
3. What is your investment horizon? Are you saving in
anticipation of buying a primary residence or secondary over the next five years
or your retirement?
4. What is your risk tolerance? To find out, please respond
to our questionnaire on risk tolerance?
5. Do you know that you can reduce the weight of your taxes
by adopting the appropriate strategy (what most people do not know)?
financial planning on
tax aims to arrange the affairs of a
taxpayer so that he pays as little tax as possible while observing the laws. It
is different from that tax evasion is an illegal transaction by which a taxpayer
reports false, falsified or withheld information. Tax evasion can result in
penalties, fines and imprisonment.
Between tax planning and tax evasion, there is a gray area
called tax avoidance. The avoidance is not illegal but is seen by government as
an operation to circumvent the Act, the income tax. A general anti-avoidance
rule contained in the law and could be invoked to withhold the tax benefit
resulting from avoidance transactions.
The arrangement of the affairs of a taxpayer, which handles
tax planning, intended primarily to maintain as constant as possible the level
of taxable income of a taxpayer for a taxation year to another. For the
individual it is, among other things, to minimize variations substantial taxable
income. This in other words to defeat the progressive tax rates.
For society, it is, among other things, maintain the income
level eligible for the deduction for small businesses, and this, as long as
possible. It is also to use all forms of credit offered to them.
The basic techniques used for this purpose are:
take maximum advantage of all deductions, exemptions, credits,
deductions, etc.. contained in the Act;
postpone to a later date, payment of tax on current income
(deferred income plans (eg RRSP, RESP), tax shelters, choosing a year-end,
etc.).
splitting income between two or more taxpayers to reduce the
marginal tax rate (spouse, children, elderly parents);
transfer income to another legal entity, which entity is taxed at
a lower rate (company, trust estate);
This simple enumeration of various tax planning techniques
alone represents an entire program!
Good tax planning involves a person competent to produce
statements of income. It is often the first and easiest step in the process!
Make yourself his tax returns or entrust a person with little training or
experience is a decision often uneconomical.
October 17th, 2009





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