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Canada has two main tax-sheltered savings plans that encourage people to put money away for retirement and other expenses — the RRSP and the TFSA.
Which one is the most popular? The TFSA, hand’s down — and new research suggests it may be because people are more likely to choose a plan that has the words “tax-free” in the title, regardless of the details in the fine print.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Ruth Pogacar of the University of Calgary and three other academics explain why this preference may be problematic.
“Substituting short- to intermediate-term savings in TFSAs for long-term savings in RRSPs may increase Canadians’ financial insecurity in retirement and ultimately increase their reliance on public pensions and other government assistance,” they write.
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All the best,
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Eleni Vlahiotis
Business + Economy Editor
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Preference for tax-free savings accounts may be due, in part, to a psychological bias for the phrase “tax-free.”
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Ruth Pogacar, University of Calgary; Jonathan Farrar, Wilfrid Laurier University; Leslie Berger, Wilfrid Laurier University; Lu Zhang, Toronto Metropolitan University
New research finds that people are more likely to choose a plan that has the words “tax-free” in the title, regardless of the details in fine print.
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