There is also a minimum threshold of years or years if living outside Canada in retirement but there are also agreements between countries in place that can help with this minimum threshold. You can find more details in this blog post….
More details here…. A spousal-RRSP contribution could be particularly effective because it would allow you to better split income with your partner in the future. There is an issue though, to avoid income from the spousal-RRSP being attributed back to you there needs to be a certain period of time between your last contribution to the spousal-RRSP and the first withdrawal by your partner.
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Fee-for-service financial planner and founder of PlanEasy. What are OAS clawbacks? How can you avoid them? How impactful are OAS clawbacks in retirement? But first, what is an OAS clawback? Foreign dividend income is treated similarly, as regular income.
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Ajit on July 4, at pm. Your post is useful but still want to know if a person has 10 year permanent stay and is aged 65 married. Although the clawback is normally based on your income from the previous calendar year, that is really just the estimated amount of your OAS repayment tax and the actual OAS repayment tax will be based on your income from the current year and using the current threshold amount.
There is no reason to be concerned about keeping your income low in your 64 th year in order to avoid the OAS clawback. So Joan, given the relatively high threshold, the opportunity to income split for many Canadians, the source of the funding, and the intent of the supplement, I firmly believe spending so much time looking for ways to dodge the Social Benefit Repayment Tax is ridiculous.
I strongly suspect the taxes being paid on income placing you in such an enviable position as to worry about this tax are at a significantly favourable rate already. To me, it is like looking for a bigger plate before joining the line at a church pot luck.
Reduce the taxes on what you earn, not on what you are given. The repayment is only the collection of what a person is was not entitled to in the first place….
The same twists and turns are done at the lower income levels to ensure the GIS is still collected is no less prevalent. Like I said… a bigger plate at a church pot luck.
The maximum GIS is paid if you have no income aside from OAS at all, and it is reduced on a step basis at 50 cents on the dollar for the most part.
Does the OAS clawback kick in on pension income before or after the pension splitting provision? Thank you. Doug, I am afraid you are misunderstanding the OAS clawback. And you are correct here, that the amount of witholding can be reduced by application to CRA if the next year income will be less than the prior year. Please take another look. The point I was trying to make, is that the amount of the reduction my clawback — your withholding tax is irrelevant, and the important thing is the repayment tax calculation, which is always based on current year income.
Ypur request to change your OAS Recovery Tax would increase the tax balance owing when you file your return for the year. For this reason, we cannot grant your request. This form response does not mention income in at all. Thanks, RR. If my income is below the recovery tax threshold, then I will get either a full or partial refund.
Doug,if you are healthy, can afford to wait and wish to avoid the clawback for as long as possible would it wise to delay applying for OAP until you turn 70? I realize that these benefits increase if you delay applying for them but is it enough to compensate for the delay? As for CPP, the increase of 0. The payback then gets pushed out to age 82 and the bigger amount could if OAS clawback was an issue work against you.
For Ontario Healthy Renovation, my father in law is over 65 so he is qualified for that benefit Renovation house Senior. But his wife make income higher than him, will Benefit Renovation is better go to her tax?
Her husband in come 18, His wife income is 90, include CPP. Please help me understand the OAS clawback. So: 1.
If I get clawed back in the first year, does the amount stay low forever, so will the OAS payment go up again depending on my lower income? If I get clawed back, then they get my tax returns and see the lower income, will they give me the difference that they deducted from the OAS amount for the months that are owing to me since I turned 65?
Irene — OAS is payable the month following your 65th birthday at the earliest. Yes, if the amount clawed back exceeds your tax owing, you will get a refund when you file your tax return.
It will be adjusted yearly based on your income. Thanks Doug! You indicate that you have per year in interest income. This suggests to me that you have saved a large amount of money probably more than 1 million. I applaud you. Based on your information — if you were to invest this in eligible Canadian dividends you could likely double this and pay little or no taxes on it and depending on your total income, still have no OAS clawback.
You would also likely have the benefit of the dividend income increasing each year. Excellent analysis , I was enlightened by the specifics — Does someone know where I could acquire a blank Form gains and losses pdf document to type on?
Doug … is the clawback applied to each person individually or is it applied to a combined ie: both spouses family income? Point being to a strategy keeping both wife and my income below the threshold of clawback …. Will I receive a tax slip showing this amount?
My partner has been getting his OAS for five years since at that time it was take it or lose it. He filled in the T OAS for but it was denied. Please note that any amount withheld from your OAS monthly payment is tax. Therefore, when you file your income tax return, you may claim these amounts on line as tax deducted, for the year the amounts were withheld.
These taxes deducted will then serve to either directly increase your refund ir decrease your valance owing. How can we tell for sure? Is there any way yo get this reduced when he retires? The clawback is a tax withhold based on estimated tax payable, and it will be refunded if his actual income is lower.
I think you guys are all a bunch of idiots!!! Its a serious breach of promise by the gangsters in Ottawa. For you idiots who never do your own income tax returns, this is income which I never get or see but in fact is taxed for my the corporations from which I receive the dividends.. Ron Lupack, Yes it includes grossed up dividends but if you had received the same actual dollar amount of money in interest income you are still better off with dividends in the OAS clawback situation… because of the tax credit involved in the calculation.
You may find it helpful to have someone knowlegible do your taxes next year! Article on OAS clawback dividends versus interest income. I understand your feeling of entitlement with OAS and the frustration regarding the clawback provisions, but no one contributing to this website blog made those decisions. Do you understand that? However, if this is indeed shown as income, would this not impact OAS Clawback calculations?
Clawback or its euphamism, tax recovery, is based on net income before adjustments. Because our income will be much much lower in we asked for a reduction of the OAS revovery amount. We assumed that the OAS cheque would start coming again. Can you try to explain to me what is going on….
Thankyou so much for your reply. If only 1 of the 10 people I talked to at CRA yesterday would have told me that. Sell assets before you turn age 65 This helps you reduce large capital gains which will add to your income. Reduce investments that produce dividends Or hold them in a registered account. Use corporate class mutual funds in a non-registered account These generally have lower distributions.
Borrow money to earn investment income so you can deduct the interest This helps reduce your net income. Now that you know about the OAS clawback, why not meet with your financial advisor to:. Get a handle on your what your actual income will be in retirement.
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