Add up every dollar of tax a business owner pays from the day they start out to the day the last account is drawn down. That total is the real scoreboard, and almost no one plans against it.
Salary vs. dividends, what you leave in the company, and where it's invested. Small choices here compound for decades.
Selling the business is usually the biggest tax event of a lifetime. The Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption, often multiplied across your family to shelter roughly $1.275M to $5.1M, and the deal structure decide how much you keep.
Drawing income in the right order, and timing CPP and OAS, so you keep more and stay clear of the clawback.
Move the slider to the surplus you could invest each year. Watch what a tax-smart plan keeps versus a typical one, from 45 to 85. Illustrative only.
Illustrative only. Assumes a tax-smart plan retains more at low corporate rates and compounds with less tax drag than a typical draw-it-all-out approach. Not a projection of your actual results, real numbers depend on your situation and current legislation.
Each one has a free tool. Every tool ladders back to the same lifetime view.
We'll build your Lifetime Tax Bill across all three phases and show you where it's leaking today.
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