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RRSP Transfers
KNOWLEDGE EXPECTED OF: Both CFP® Professionals and QAFPTM Professionals
- Explain the age limit for transferring property to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.1
- For a personal Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- For a spousal Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- Identify potential reasons why an individual may choose to transfer capital property into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Unlocking of locked-in assets
- Death of the annuitant’s current (or former) spouse
- Voluntary choice by the annuitant to transfer
- Breakdown of the annuitant’s relationship†
- Identify potential reasons why an individual may choose to transfer capital property out of a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Retirement
- Breakdown of the annuitant’s relationship
- Death of the annuitant
- Voluntary choice by the annuitant to transfer
- Identify the types of plans from which capital property may be transferred tax-deferred into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Identify the types of plans to which capital property may be transferred tax-deferred out of a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.2,3,4
- Explain the Canada Revenue Agency’s requirements related to tax-deferred transfers of capital property to or from a Registered Retirement Savings Plan upon the breakdown of a relationship between spouses.5
- Estimate the tax impact of transferring capital property into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Explain how each of the factors may impact the suitability of transferring capital property into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan, such as:
- Withdrawal options
- Tax impact
- Impact of future withdrawals on government benefits
- Evaluate how each of the factors may impact the suitability of transferring capital property into a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Estimate the tax impact of transferring capital property out of a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
- Explain how each of the factors may impact the suitability of transferring capital property out of a Registered Retirement Savings Plan, such as:
- Cash flow needs
- Withdrawal options
- Tax impact
- Government legislation (unlocking and transfer options)
- Evaluate how each of the factors may impact the suitability of transferring capital property out of a Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
† Relationship refers to marriages between spouses, common-law partners or similar relationships in jurisdictions where pension legislation provides for the division of capital property held within a pension upon relationship breakdown.
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Define
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Identify
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Estimate
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Calculate
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REFERENCES
- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/rrsp-reer/trnsfrrng/menu-eng.html
- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/rrsp-reer/trnsfrrng/prprty-eng.html
- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/rrsp-reer/trnsfrrng/cmmttn-eng.html
- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/rrsp-reer/trnsfrrng/dth-eng.html
- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tp/it528/it528-e.html#P119_9829
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