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Income Splitting and Avoiding the Attribution Rules

Unlock significant tax savings by mastering advanced income-splitting strategies while expertly navigating the complex landscape of attribution rules.

Created byJason Fleming
5.0
(41 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated Oct 13, 2025
Income Splitting and Avoiding the Attribution Rules

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify income splitting opportunities for tax savings.
check_circleUnderstand the impact of marginal tax rates on income splitting.
check_circleRecognize scenarios where attribution rules prevent income splitting.
check_circleApply prescribed rate loan strategies to avoid attribution.
check_circleNavigate tax on split income (TOSI) for family businesses.
check_circleUtilize spousal RRSPs and pension splitting effectively.

About This Course

This webinar will explain how to split income and save thousands of dollars a year in income tax. Avoiding the attribution rules (which can stop you from income splitting) will also be discussed. There are numerous examples to explain everything needed for you to successfully save on tax.

Features included:

• What is income splitting and federal and provincial (and territorial) graduated tax rates
• How you can save tax by splitting income with lower-income family members
• What are the attribution rules that can stop your tax planning from working and how to avoid the attribution rules
• Prescribed rate loans and transfers to spouses, related minors, trusts, partnerships, and corporations
• How to split business income, the tax on split income (TOSI), and exceptions to TOSI
• Corporate attribution, how to avoid it, and the election for transferring dividend income
• Splitting CPP/QPP and pension income and using spousal RRSPs

Your Instructor

Jason Fleming
Jason Fleming

CPA, CA, M.Acc

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Jason Fleming is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) with a master’s degree in accounting. Jason is an associate professor, teaching stream, at York University, previously he was a tax manager at a Big-4 accounting firm in Toronto. Jason completed the CICA’s In-Depth tax course, ranked 8th in Ontario on the UFE (the CA professional exam) and taught tax week at the ICAO's Summer School. Jason is the author of CFE Tax, 9th edition, CFE Case Writing, 3rd edition and various tax articles.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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