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Estate Freeze for Ontario Owner-Managers: A Governance Guide
This analysis is being written to the standard the rest of this site holds to — dated, cited to primary sources, and revised when the law or CRA practice changes. It is not yet published.
What this analysis will cover
An estate freeze caps the value of the current generation's shares and passes future growth — and the tax on it — to the next. This piece treats the freeze as a governance decision rather than a transaction: valuation discipline, redemption terms, who holds control, and the paper that must exist when CRA asks about it years later.
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