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March 4, 2015

Ottawa needs to change federal tax rules so that they accommodate single-employer Target Benefit Plans (TBP), according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be,” authors Barry Gros, Karen Hall, Ian McSweeney and Jana Steele propose a tax treatment for single-employer TBPs that is consistent with the existing tax regime.

Barry Gros

Barry Gros is a pension actuary who retired from active consulting in Toronto in 2014. He just finished an 8-year tenure as the Chair of the pension board of the University of British Columbia Staff Pension Plan, a target benefit plan for the past 50 years.