If so, the rules let you carry forward the missed contribution indefinitely as
extra contribution room for future years.
For those making less than $ 50,000,
the extra contribution room could make TFSAs preferable to RRSPs, Coleman says, because RRSPs aren't as tax - efficient for people paying less tax.
Not exact matches
Like the majority of people who will set up an account, he plans to use the
contribution room to save
extra money that he can pull out without penalty if need be.
As their RRSP
contribution room is limited, this is their opportunity to save for
extra (and tax free) income during retirement.
If you contribute $ 5,000 and you're in the 33 % tax bracket, that gets you an
extra refund of $ 1666.66, which can then be used next year to get even more of a refund, and so on, until you maximize your
contribution room.
This year, ING is doing it again — if you have money earmarked for your 2010 TFSA
contribution room then you can put the money into their TFSA «kick start» account and they will pay
extra interest to make up for any taxes on the interest.
You now get a tax refund on the $ 5000 and the
extra $ 150 you didn't ever even pay taxes on and you now have a
contribution room of $ 5150 in your TFSA.
Your
contribution limit for the year was $ 5000 but since you only used up $ 1000, you're left with $ 4000 of
extra room for that year.
So if you take out the full 10K you'd have to wait until the next year and you would get your 10K of
contribution room, plus your
extra 5K for the next year so you would have more than most people.
Not only will you get larger tax breaks, but you'll have built up lots of
extra RRSP
contribution room from the years you were using a TFSA instead.
Even if the Liberals had pledged to claw back the
extra $ 4,500 in
contribution room afforded to Canadians this year, savers wouldn't have been penalized for it, Keith MacIntyre, national tax practice leader at Grant Thornton LLP, told Advisor.ca.
After receiving my Notice of Assessment (NoA) from the CRA, I found that the summary section listed that I had a TFSA
contribution room of $ 10,000 for the year 2010 (the
extra $ 5000 was carried over from the unused
room for 2009!).
For instance, if you have unused RRSP
contribution room and the market has recently declined — say, 10 % off its peak for the year — it might be reasonable to borrow an
extra $ 5,000 to add to your normal RRSP
contribution of $ 5,000.
If you do not put the full amount into the plan each year, you will have
extra, unused
contribution room that you can use in later years.
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