All About Estates

Month: September 2010

Total 18 Posts

A Nice Gift to Give to your Spouse… a Loan

The Canada Revenue Agency has announced the 2010 third quarter prescribed interest rate used to calculate taxable benefits for employees and shareholders for interest-free and low interest loans would be 1%. With this the lowest historical prescribed rate ever, it is an opportune time for taxpayers to reduce the tax bite through an income-splitting structure using loans.

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Integrated Estate Planning

“The collection of preparation tasks that serve to manage an individual’s asset base in the event of their incapacity or death” – www.investopedia.com; “The process of preparing one’s assets for one’s death”- www.thefreedictionary.com; Whatever definition you prefer…

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Welcome to All About Estates and our inaugural blog!!

Welcome to All About Estates and our inaugural blogg!! It is a diverse group of professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience. All About Estates aims to provide you with a smorgasbord of ideas, trends, comments, and tidbits on interesting and diverse topics. Each weekday a different blogger from a different organization will write an entry.

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