Work out the refundable tax a private corporation recovers by paying dividends, and the net tax cost of recovering that refund to the shareholder and the company, then turn it into a client-ready letter, not just a number on screen.
The calculation is only half the work. CodaraFlow finishes the explanation, the tables, and the client-ready letter.
Whether to pay a dividend to recover refundable tax turns on what the shareholder pays personally against what the company gets back, and the answer changes with every amount considered. Both sides are worked together here, so testing a different dividend is a different number rather than a different afternoon.
The shareholder’s tax on the dividend is worked alongside the corporate refund, with the cost per dollar recovered, so the recommendation does not wait on a second calculation somewhere else.
The statutory order between the eligible and non-eligible pools applies itself, so testing a larger or smaller dividend is a changed figure rather than reworked mechanics.
The notes appear when the figures call for them, so a limit or a deadline is part of the advice rather than something found after the resolution is signed.
The closing eligible pool, non-eligible pool and GRIP carried forward come out with the answer, so the next dividend does not begin by re-deriving where the pools stand.
The recovery plan goes to the client as an advisory letter assembled from approved wording.
This is one of the built-in calculations in CodaraFlow. Enter the corporation’s refundable-tax pools and the dividends paid, and it computes the refund recovered and the net cost across the corporation and the shareholder.
The number is not the deliverable. In CodaraFlow the result drops straight into a letter section: the firm’s approved wording, the computation tables, and the explanatory notes that actually apply to this client, written in for you. Exported as an editable Word document on your letterhead.
The same reviewed explanation, not whatever the preparer types today.
The pool-spill, GRIP-limit and filing-deadline notes appear only when the figures call for them.
The refund and net-cost computation is laid out and footed automatically.
Finish it in Word, on your firm’s letterhead. No proprietary format.
The calculation follows the refundable dividend tax mechanism for private corporations. The wording is firm-editable; the rules are fixed by the Act.
A private corporation recovers refundable tax when it pays a taxable dividend, provided its return is filed within three years of the year-end.
An eligible dividend draws on the eligible pool (ERDTOH); a non-eligible dividend draws on the non-eligible pool (NERDTOH) and then any remaining eligible pool.
An eligible dividend designation is generally limited by the corporation’s GRIP balance. An excessive designation may attract Part III.1 tax.
The figures cover dividends paid to an individual shareholder. Dividends paid to connected corporations, and the resulting Part IV tax consequences, are outside these figures. The refund requires the corporation’s return to be filed within three years of the year-end; unused pool balances carry forward indefinitely.
Every calculator produces a planning estimate for a qualified practitioner to review. Renshi CodaraFlow does not give tax advice.
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Everything is computed from the figures you enter and assembled from your firm’s approved wording. The app never connects to AI.
Editable Word documents on your firm’s letterhead. Monthly pricing, no long-term contracts.
No. It’s one of the built-in calculations inside CodaraFlow. The result becomes a client-ready letter section, complete with the computation table and the notes that apply, not just a figure you copy into a client letter.
No. It estimates the refund and its net cost so you can plan the dividend. The refund itself is claimed on the corporate return.
Yes. Every sentence and every note is firm-editable, and can be overridden on an individual letter.
No. The app never connects to AI. Deliverables are assembled from structured facts and your firm’s approved wording.