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Eliminating the Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) minimum withdrawal amount

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Published on November 19, 2020 PDF

Mr. McCauley, MP, requested the PBO to cost the elimination of the annual RRIF minimum-withdrawal amount. As a result, RRIF holders would withdraw less, thereby reducing government revenues, as RRIF withdrawals are considered taxable income.

PBO has assumed that the annual minimum-withdrawal amounts will remain the threshold for determining whether RRIF withdrawals are subject to tax withheld at the source, in accordance with current rules.

PBO has assumed the policy would take effect on January 1, 2021.

The cost for the first full fiscal year, 2021–22, would be $940 million. The cost for the last year in the projection, 2024–25, would be $1,016 million.