This may be of the most important little investment book you'll ever read! Financial expert Gordon Pape explains the new Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)-the powerful new personal savings vehicle for Canadians - and provides a range of strategies that you can use to add thousands of tax-exempt dollars to your personal wealth. As of January, 2009, everyone 18 and older can contribute to a TFSA and start building your tax-free investments. This indispensible primer will help you get started on meeting your financial goals with the most valuable new savings program since the introduction of RRSPs more than 50 years ago. Pape clearly explains everything you need to know about Tax-Free Savings Accounts including: The advantages of a TFSA Contribution rules and limits The best investments for a TFSA TFSAs or RRSPs? Withdrawing money from a TFSA Using TFSAs for income splitting Tips to maximize tax savings How TFSAs can benefit retirees

In this paper, we argue that there is more to be learned from recent research on the effectiveness of targeted saving incentives than is suggested by the wide variation in empirical estimates. First, we conclude that characterizations of saving appear to stimulate moderate amounts of new saving. Second, we suggest a cost-benefit approach to ask: What is the incremental gain in capital accumulation per dollar of foregone revenue? We find that for quite conservative measures of the saving impacts of IRAs or 401(k)s, the incremental gains in capital accumulation per dollar of lost revenue are large.

Millions of Canadians have opened a Tax-Free Savings Account, with more doing so every day. First launched in 2009, TFSA plans have become one of the most popular ways to save and invest. Their flexibility and tax-saving potential appeals to everyone, young and old. And you don't have to be wealthy to use them; millions of middle- and modest-income earners have opened plans and contribute to them on a regular basis. In 2015, the federal government announced a big increase in the annual TFSA contribution limit to $10,000, effective immediately. This move makes this popular investment vehicle an even more attractive option for putting money aside for future needs, including retirement, education, a new home, a special vacation, or as an emergency fund. In this completely updated edition, Canada's TFSA expert Gordon Pape explains how you can use the latest rule changes to your advantage and provides a range of strategies for maximizing tax-exempt profits. He also warns of some of the potential dangers in the plans and explains how to avoid them. And he tells readers how to decide whether to invest in TFSAs or put money into RRSPs or pay off debt. For anyone who already has a Tax-Free Savings Account or is thinking of opening one, this book is a must-read. It may be worth many thousands of dollars to you over your lifetime.

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Tax-Free Savings Accounts are the most powerful personal savings vehicle available to Canadians. Although they were first introduced in 2009, TFSAs still haven't been opened by thousands of Canadians, who are passing up the opportunity to add thousands of tax-exampt dollars to their personal wealth Plus, many people who have TFSA accounts don't make regular contributions. One of the the problems is that TFSAs are much more complex than they first appeared to be. This book provides the information Canadians need fo the most effective ways to take advantage of this great investment opportunity. Trusted financial expert Gordon Pape wrote the first and only definitive guide to TFSAs, which became a huge bestseller. In this completely revised and updated edition, Pape provides clear and easy-to-understand advice to help you get the most from your TFSA and how to get started if you haven't yet opened an account. With details of rule changes, investment strategies, and pitfalls to avoid, Tax-Free Savings Accounts shows you how tomaximize your investment, correctly manage withdrawals, successfully understand fees so you won't get hit with unexpected charges, and much more. It's time to take control of your money and make a TFSA a key component of your plan to achieve financial freedom.

This report describes and analyses various tax-preferred savings accounts, excluding pension-related accounts, in a cross-section of 11 OECD countries.

To boost their domestic saving rate, many OECD countries have introduced savings accounts that offer tax advantages, called tax-preferred saving accounts. This report describes and analyses various tax-preferred savings accounts, excluding pension-related accounts, in a cross-section of 11 OECD countries. Based on a comparison of results, the report then answers the following questions: (1) which income groups benefit the most from these accounts; (2) to what extent do these accounts generate additional savings; and (3) how much tax revenue is foregone due to these accounts. Based on the findings, the report also suggests measures on how to improve the effectiveness of tax-preferred savings accounts. For a complete list of titles that have been published in the Tax Policy Studies series, please see www.oecd.org/ctp/taxpolicystudies.