Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSA) is really benefit the senior who are receiving Guaranteed Income  Supplement because any income earned  in TFSA in not taxable and Guaranteed Income Supplement doesn’t get reduce by your Accountant Woodbridge Ontario.

Wealthy Canadians are getting access to a retirement benefit that was intended for the elderly poor, suggests a new report on the country’s retirement-security system. An actuarial report on the Old Age Security Program for the first time calculates the long-term impact of a popular tax shelter that was created by the Conservative government in 2009.

Tax-free savings accounts, or TFSAs, allow Canadians to save up to $5,000 each year with all earnings and withdrawals exempt from taxation, Accountant Woodbridge. TFSAs also come with another big plus: none of the money counts when determining whether the account-holder is entitled to a retirement benefit for low-income seniors. The Guaranteed Income Supplement currently provides a basic maximum of $665 a month for a single senior, but the amount paid out is reduced or eliminated if the recipient has significant other income by Accountant Woodbridge.

The official report from chief actuary Jean-Claude Menard, tabled in the summer when Parliament was not sitting, calculates that excluding
TFSA money from the means-test for that benefit will cost the federal
government an extra $4.2 billion annually by 2050. That’s because as more Canadians see significant growth of wealth inside tax-sheltered TFSAs, they will nevertheless be eligible for the Guaranteed Income Supplement, or GIS by Accountant Woodbridge.

And rising payouts of the low-income supplement will increase even further if the Tory government eventually raises the annual savings limit to $10,000, as promised in the May 2 election campaign.

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