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The
First-time Home Buyer's Plan (HBP) is a loan Canada
Federal Government initiative providing Canadian citizens
the opportunity to withdraw up to $20,000 from personal
registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) for buying or
building a home in Canada. To qualify for the loans Canada,
applicants must not have directly, or indirectly, owned a
residence within the past five years.
Under
the HBP and loan
Canada, qualifying withdrawals will not
be included in annual income, and RRSP issuers will not
withhold income tax from these withdrawn amounts. If you
are jointly buying or building a home together with your
spouse or other qualifying individual, each of you can
withdraw up to $20,000 with a Canada
debt consolidation mortgage.
With
a loan Canada
debt consolidation lender, to withdraw these funds from your RRSPs,
you must first have entered into a written agreement to
buy or to build. You will also need to confirm that you
will occupy the subject property as your personal
residence. (Once you take occupancy there is no minimum
period of time you are required to live there.)
Your
Canada mortgage
refinance commitment to the HBP is to repay the amount
withdrawn within a 15 year time period.
In each year, you will need to make the minimum
contributions to your RRSPs equal to 1/15 of the withdrawn
funds until the total amount is repaid. Your loan Canada
repayment starts the second year following your
withdrawal, and you may repay any amount in excess of the
minimum to reduce payments in later years.
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