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MoneyMapCanada publishes calculators and educational guides for Canadian readers. We do not present calculator outputs as personalized financial, tax, legal, investment, or accounting advice.
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Canadian personal-finance tools with transparent assumptions and source-backed research.
MoneyMapCanada is an independent Canadian personal-finance education website. We build free calculators and publish plain-language guides to help readers understand taxes, take-home pay, mortgages, debt, savings, registered accounts, banking, insurance, and other everyday money decisions.
Our goal is to make the math and the underlying rules easier to inspect. Calculator results are estimates, not recommendations, and readers should confirm important decisions with official sources or a qualified professional who understands their circumstances.
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Documented calculator assumptions
Calculator pages explain their methodology, assumptions, limitations, and the official sources readers can use to verify current rules and thresholds.
Official-source research
Time-sensitive tax, mortgage, banking, pension, inflation, and registered-account information is checked against the relevant Canadian government agency, regulator, or official institution.
Corrections and updates
Pages include updated dates where relevant. When an underlying rule, rate, threshold, or methodology changes, the affected content is reviewed and corrected. Readers can also report errors through our contact page.
Primary sources
Where we verify Canadian financial rules
For time-sensitive financial rules and thresholds, we prefer primary sources rather than relying on secondary summaries. Individual calculator and guide pages link to the source material relevant to that topic.
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Canada Revenue Agency
Income tax, payroll deductions, GST/HST, RRSP and TFSA rules
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Banking, credit, mortgages, debt and consumer guidance
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Home-buying and mortgage-insurance information
Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
Deposit-protection information for member institutions
Bank of Canada
Inflation, interest-rate and monetary-policy information
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Federal financial-institution and mortgage-qualification guidance
Editorial process
How a page is prepared
We first identify the official rule, rate, threshold, or formula that the page depends on. We then build the explanation or calculator around that source and document material assumptions on the page.
Before publication, content is checked for broken links, calculation logic, misleading certainty, missing limitations, and stale time-sensitive values. Financial calculators are planning tools, so we also explain where real-world results can differ because of lender terms, provider fees, tax circumstances, timing, eligibility, or other factors.
When a page contains a material error, we correct the content and update its review date. Readers can report a suspected error or outdated source through the contact page.
Review checklist
1. Primary source
Identify the government agency, regulator, or official institution responsible for the rule or data used on the page.
2. Calculation check
Check the formula, units, thresholds, rounding behaviour, and boundary cases used by the calculator or example.
3. Limits and disclosures
Explain important assumptions and where actual tax, lender, bank, insurance, or investment outcomes may differ.
4. Update review
Revisit time-sensitive pages after rule changes, annual tax updates, or other official announcements that affect the calculation.
Corrections, questions, or source updates
If you spot an outdated rule, calculation problem, broken source, or unclear disclosure, send us the page URL and the issue. We use reader reports as part of our update process.