Downsizing Your CRA Tax Files?

Happy New Year! If one of your resolutions for 2026 is to downsize, or at least sort through all that stuff you don’t need anymore, you may inevitably run across those tax files you’ve been keeping for decades. Just how long do you have to keep them? Do you need permission to destroy them? From whom? Read on to learn more. 

People can retire at any age, but it is increasingly rare for people to simply go from earning income from employment or self-employment directly to withdrawing income from investments and other sources including pensions.

There is still time to join us at the Retirement and Estate Planning Bootcamp in Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. Register online or call us at 1-866-953-4769 to register quickly and get all the details you need.

Accurately prepare retirement plans that achieve the necessary results with the Advanced Tax-Efficient Retirement Income Planning course. This course marries tax and financial planning competencies and is the perfect complement to the Retirement and Estate Planning Bootcamp, September 17-22.

The Finance Minister of Canada, Joe Oliver and the finance ministers of British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick have signed a Memorandum of Agreement on September 8 to jointly establish the terms and conditions of a Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System, and released draft provincial and federal legislation to harmonize current legislation. 

Many advisors have spent a good part of their lives building their business and have the bulk of their personal net worth tied up in it, making their practice their most valuable investment asset — the one they are counting on to help fund their lifestyle in retirement.

Although CRA will not make the official announcement until later this month, the prescribed annual interest rates for the fourth quarter will remain at the same rates as the prior three quarters.