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No Strings Attached: How The Tax-Free Savings Account Can Help Lower-Income Canadians Get Ahead

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John Stapleton (St. Christopher House)
Richard Shillington (Tristat Resources)
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The federal government’s new Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) can help correct the problem of government clawback provisions that discourage or effectively prohibit spersonal saving, provided that provinces and territories refrain from imposing new asset tests and clawbacks that undo savers’ potential gains.

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Paper provided by C.D. Howe Institute in its series e-briefs with number 64.

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Date of creation: Sep 2008
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Publication status: Published on the C.D. Howe Institute website, September 2008
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Keywords: fiscal policy; tax-free savings accounts (TFSA);

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E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth

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