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Canadian Pensions and Retirement Income Planning

Are you:

  • Implementing a retirement plan in your organization?
  • Looking to increase the tax effectiveness of retirement plans?
  • Calculating pension adjustments?
  • Trying to understand the RRSP rules?
  • Considering how to provide retirement income to your executives?

Designed to answer questions like these, the newly revised issue of Canadian Pensions and Retirement Income Planning, provides insightful and easy to understand guidance to help organizations work through the myriad of retirement plan registration, contribution, and reporting requirements. This book also helps readers understand the complex tax rules that impact on retirement savings plans and provides detailed information on how to ensure that:

  • calculations are correct
  • critical documents are filed
  • legislation is complied with, and
  • tax effectiveness is maximized.

Canadian Pensions and Retirement Income Planning covers all types of retirement income plans including defined benefit, defined contribution, RRSPs and deferred profit sharing plans. It is ideal for pension plan sponsors, administrators, accountants, tax advisers, human resource professionals, actuaries and pension consultants as well as students and others interested in better understanding Canada’s tax rules for retirement income programs.

Authored by Watson Wyatt Canada, a leading human capital management consulting firm, this book incorporates recent revisions to the Income Tax Act and Regulations and reflects the current policies in use by Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.