How to Reduce the Tax You Pay for the 1992 Tax Year

W. Bruce Wrigley is a fixed-income and derivative products salesman in
the Treasury Department Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada).

Self-help books dealing with personal finances tend to come in two
genres: those that offer a general guide to financial planning and those
that are specifically targeted to defined areas of wealth creation or
preservation. This book falls into the latter category and should
probably be the first book an individual consults for an overview of tax
planning. The volume is clearly and plainly laid out. The subheadings in
the table of contents allow those more familiar with the topic to go
directly to tax specifics, and the concise chapter summations provide a
quick and inclusive review.

It is an unfortunate fact of modern Canadian society that tax questions
intrude on our lives literally from birth to the treatment of our
estates upon death. (I mention birth because of the popularity of
planning early in a child’s life for post-secondary education.) This
text deftly guides the taxpayer through RRSP basics, the lifetime
capital-gains exemption, tax aspects of auto use, the GST rebate, and
estate planning, to name just five topics. As a tax planning/information
guide, it clearly succeeds.