8 ways to help increase your children’s financial education.

8 ways to help increase your children’s financial education.

As a parent, I’m always looking for ways to help increase my children’s financial education. One of my favourite ways is to have your business hire your children. The first thing to look at is what your children can do in your business.

There are lots of tasks children can do:

  • Filing
  • Cleaning
  • Answering phones
  • Running errands
  • Data entry
  • Maintaining the company’s online presence
  • Updating the company website
  • Research
  • As you can see from this shortlist, the tasks can range from simple to complex depending on your children’s skill set. The more advanced your children’s skill set, the more valuable your children become to the business and the more your business can pay them. I have been doing this since I learned from one of the renowned CPA and Tax advisor Tom Wheelwright

When it comes to graphics, I give that task to my son who has the skills and pays him for the service.

When your business pays your children, this is money that your business would usually:

  • Distribute or pay to you, or
  • Pay to another employee to do the tasks.

If the money is distributed or paid to you, it is taxed at your individual tax rate. If the money is paid to another employee, then that money is leaving your family circle and can no longer work for you and your family.

Having your company hire your children keeps the money in your family and shifts the income from your tax rate to your children’s tax rates.

Your children’s income tax rates start at 0%.
This means if you are in a 30% income tax rate, then paying your children allows you to take advantage of your children’s lower tax rates.

Your business and your children may be responsible for payroll taxes, which is approximately 15%. Don’t forget to factor this in when you are calculating how much you save in taxes by hiring your children. Also, keep in mind that there are exceptions to this rule. These exceptions exempt some businesses from having to pay payroll taxes on wages paid to children of the owners. The rules are very specific to each situation so be sure to discuss this with your tax advisor.

Getting your children involved with your tax can provide many opportunities to reduce your taxes. Even more exciting is what your children can do with this money to put their money to work. This is self financial education you can start providing to your children.

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