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Published: March 5, 2020

Last Updated: March 17, 2020

If you own your own company and you are retiring to leave it for others to carry on, you can arrange for the company to pay you a reasonable retiring allowance which will be deductible to the company, and you may be able to transfer all or a portion of the allowance to your RRSP and claim the tax deduction.

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