Capital Required for Income

This chart shows how much capital is needed to generate an annual income.
Alberta
Taxable income
60,000
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Taxable Income
Enter the taxable income amount from line 260 of your personal income tax return.
Taxes payable
11,933
After-tax income
48,067
Annual after-tax income need
50,000
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Annual Income Need
Enter the after-tax annual amount of income you want the capital to generate.
Indexed at
2.00%
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Indexed at
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Generate income for how many years?
25
Rate of return
6.00%
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Rate of return breakdown: Info
Rate of return breakdown
This shows how the rate of return for the taxable investment is broken down between Interest, Eligible Dividends and Capital Gains. For example, the return on a savings account would typically be 100% interest. The return for a mutual fund with stock and bond holdings could be made up of Interest, Eligible Dividends and Capital Gains.

Interest
33.33%
Eligible dividends
33.33%
Capital Gains
33.40%
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Pay down debt
Not Indexed
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Assumptions
The annual income is paid at the beginning of the year.
Calculations use marginal tax rates as of in .
Rates take all federal and provincial taxes and surtaxes into account and the basic personal tax credit.
The taxes on the rate of return are calculated using these marginal tax rates:


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