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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)

Abstract

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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  • John Stapleton & Richard Shillington, 2008. "No Strings Attached: How The Tax-Free Savings Account Can Help Lower-Income Canadians Get Ahead," e-briefs 64, C.D. Howe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdh:ebrief:64
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    Cited by:

    1. David Card & Martin Dooley & A. Abigail Payne, 2008. "School Choice and the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from Ontario," C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 115, October.

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    Keywords

    fiscal policy; tax-free savings accounts (TFSA);

    JEL classification:

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

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