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main differences:
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6 M- Y% t7 I, S* SRRSP is a tax deferral investment strategy. you defer the tax you would pay today (assuming at higher tax bracket) until you need them later on when your tax bracket is lowered. it doesn't mean you have to wait until you retire to withdraw on it, but usually, that's when most people's income is lower. for example, assuming your income tax bracket is at 39% (29% federal and 10% provincial), at that bracket, for every $1 you earn, you will pay $0.39 of it to the government. if you take a part of that income and invest it into RRSP, then you don't pay tax on that 39% for now. assuming the tax rates stay the same and you've retired. your income level dropped and as a result, you're income tax bracket is now 25% (15% federal and 10% provincial). at that point, the money you withdraw from RRSP is only taxed at 25% as oppose to 39%. furthermore, the amount of tax deferred money you save today is also making more money for you as investment return.
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simple example:
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if you have $10,000 at 39% tax bracket, if you don't buy RRSP, you will take home $6100. if you buy RRSP with that $10,000 then the $3900 you would have paid to government remains in your account until you start to withdraw from it. at retirement, not counting the investment growth, the same $10,000 taxed at 25% means you only pay $2500 in tax as oppose to $3900 in tax. what's even better is that the $3900 tax money you deferred to pay was making investment returns for you at the same time. & P* }/ n$ i1 J4 E
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TFSA is a after taxed income investment plan. all the money you throw in that account has already been taxed once by the government so therefore, no matter how much money you make (investment returns), the government can no longer tax you on it any more.
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all other investment returns made outside of TFSA will need to pay tax on, in the forms of capital gains, income tax or business revenues. |
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