Featured MacMillan Strategy: Prescribed Interest Rate Loan
If you are paying the highest marginal rate of tax, income splitting with your low-income family members via a prescribed interest rate loan can substantially reduce your collective tax bill by thousands dollars. Basically, this strategy involves a high-income individual lending money to a trust established for the benefit of a low-income family member at the CRA prescribed interest rate to decrease their collective tax bills.
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