“With ‘excellent’ integration, complete tax (company and private) on revenue earned via a company ought to theoretically equal complete tax on revenue earned straight by a person,” Richie and Feindel say of their e-book.
Like most educational math issues, the situation doesn’t bear out in the actual world. Based on Richie, dividends are topic to decrease private revenue tax charges. Meaning with a view to meet a sure cash-flow want, somebody wouldn’t must take out as a lot in dividends from their company in comparison with if they’d gotten paid via a wage.
“The motive force needs to be how a lot you spend. Based mostly on that, you really do not want the complete $150,000 in dividends,” Richie says. “So the query is ‘how do you provide you with a web after-tax money move?’ And you may work out how a lot the consumer really wants from there.”
The decrease revenue tax fee on dividends additionally has implications on whether or not to carry cash in a company or an RRSP. Whereas 1,000,000 {dollars} held in a company would possibly look the identical as 1,000,000 held in an RRSP via a net-worth lens, Richie says there’s extra to it.
“The tax charges on dividends are decrease than the tax charges on wage and RRSP revenue,” he says. “Whether or not you’re taking cash out in a single 12 months, 10 years, or 50 years, you’re at all times going to be in a decrease tax bracket with cash within the company than with the RRSP.”