It applies to elements such as loss of earnings, cost of future care and adapted housing to reflect future interest
earned on lump sums received.
Not exact matches
Contract positions: Taking contract positions
on a per - project basis allows you to
earn larger
lump sums of money to put toward paying off your debt.
(i.e. if one day you get to the point that you're
earning > # 5k interest —
on, say, # 150k savings — you won't be able to move that
lump sum into an ISA in one go).
It makes a lot more sense for anyone that has a chunk of cash sitting in the bank and are planning
on slowly drawing from it because you technically still have all that money in a property (or multiple properties) and can sell them if you really need the
lump sum of cash but you'll
earn great interest payments until you do that.
If you do build up a
lump sum of non-ISA cash, then go back to work, you'll have to pay 20 % tax
on any interest
earned over # 1,000 for basic - rate payers, 40 %
on any interest
earned over # 500 for higher - rate.
Economically, the key question to ask
on a
lump sum versus a stream of payments is what you would have to
earn to replicate the stream of payments.
For an investor with moderate to high risk tolerance, if you can
earn 5 %
on a TFSA and you're paying 2.5 %
on your mortgage, over time, you may be better off amassing a TFSA balance that can someday be used to make
lump -
sum payments against a mortgage.
The drawback to this though, is that once you've blown through the rather generous
lump sum of cash that the game provides at the start, you'll find that money trickles in very slowly and
earning enough to max out the stats
on one vehicle, let alone upgrading to the next, soon proves to be quite the grindy chore.
The receiving spouse also benefits from
lump sum spousal support because he / she can take that money and invest it somewhere or buy a property with it and
earn interest
on it rather than having to wait each month to get paid or be dependent
on his / her ex-spouse.
If it can be shown that the income loss can be attributed to a certain year, then the income loss should be calculated
on a yearly basis, and not a
lump sum basis, for all years as though the income was
earned in one year.
The money in your fixed annuity, which you invest as a
lump sum,
earns a guaranteed fixed rate of interest.2, 3 Fixed deferred annuities are not subject to the ups and downs of the stock market and you don't pay taxes
on your earnings until you withdraw them.4 With a fixed deferred annuity, you will also receive protection for your beneficiaries through a guaranteed death benefit.2
The money in your annuity, which you invest as a
lump sum,
earns a guaranteed fixed rate of interest.2 Fixed deferred annuities are not subject to the ups and downs of the stock market and you don't pay taxes
on your earnings until you withdraw them.3 With a fixed deferred annuity, you will also receive protection for your beneficiaries through a guaranteed death benefit.1
However, in the event that a beneficiary receives installments over time (not a
lump sum distribution) and those installments
earn interest, there would be taxes due
on the interest
earned.
If the beneficiary elects to receive the payment other than as a
lump sum, the interest
earned on the life insurance is taxable as income.
They have no large
lump sum to get taxed
on and they
earn interest and you don't have to jump through the banks hoops to purchase a property.