Net Worth & Estate Summary

The Net Worth & Estate Summary is available for each spouse and for the couple together in the final year of the projections, or in any given year using the following steps. This article refers to the personal Net Worth & Estate Summary. On the Corporate Planning page, there is a separate Net Worth & Estate Value table that is available for each year of the projections by clicking the value under the After-Tax Estate Value column. 

To view the final year's Net Worth & Estate Summary:

Click the blue icon at the top of the Estate Before Tax column on the personal Planning page, This will open the Net Worth & Estate Summary table with values displayed as of Dec. 31 of the final year of the projections.  You can also click the Estate Before Tax value in the given year to open the Net Worth & Estate Summary table for that year specifically. 

Here, the final year of the projections for John and Jane is displayed. They are both aged 100 in 2062. Note that the information displayed for each spouse will be for their final year of projections. If one spouse outlives the other in the projections, make sure to view their specific column. The Combined column will display information for the final year that both spouses are alive. If you have multiple scenarios, you can use the Compare with Other Scenarios button to open the same table for these scenarios. This button will only be visible for comparable scenarios, for example, those that start and end in the same years.

To view the Net Worth & Estate Summary for any given year of the projections:

Click the value in the Estate before Tax column in any given year of the projections to open the Net Worth & Estate Summary for that year.

You can hide other scenarios by clicking the button indicated above.

Definitions of the items within the Personal Net Worth & Estate Summary table

• Capital Assets - Balance of all Capital Assets (RRSP, TFSA, LIRA, DCPP, Non-Registered) plus any balance in the Cash Balance (accumulated Surplus, with interest growth), before tax.

• Real Assets - Value of all Real Assets, including real estate and other tangible real assets, before tax.

• Total Assets - Sum of Capital Assets and Real Assets.

• Debts - Sum of all Debts accumulated (line of credit, mortgage, investment loan, etc.) plus any negative balance in the Cash Balance column (accumulated Shortfall, with interest payments).

• Insurance CSV - Personal insurance cash surrender value.

• Corporations - the portion of the Corporate After-Tax Estate Value allocated to the client and/or spouse at the end of any given year based on the specified ownership of the Corporation(s). If a corporate disposition of Winding-Up is specified for the corporation, details about this value are available under the Corporate Planning page, by clicking the value under the column After-Tax Estate Value for any given year.
• • Corporate Disposition on Death.  Please click here for details of how Snap Projections estimates the potential taxes at death.
  • If you hover your mouse over the value for Corporations in this Net Worth & Estate Summary table, the Distributions paid out by the Corporation are visible (as shown above). 

• Net Worth - Sum of the values of Capital Assets, Real Assets, personal Insurance CSV, and Corporations minus Debts.

• Insurance Proceeds - The proceeds of personal insurance where the beneficiary has been assigned as the estate (or a spouse if a spouse has been included in the projections). Insurance proceeds with a beneficiary of "Other" will not be displayed here and insurance proceeds for corporate-owned insurance are not displayed here.

• Estate Before Tax - Sum of Net Worth plus personal Insurance Proceeds minus the personal Insurance CSV.

• Tax on Estate - Total tax paid on the estate. This includes the tax on the disposition of registered assets (RRSP, LIRA, DCPP), and any capital gains realized at the end of projections (non-registered, real assets). It also includes an estimated tax on the disposition of the corporation. 
  • The estate tax is calculated as follows. All assets are deemed sold on December 31st at 11:59 pm (last year of projections). Then, the estate tax is paid.
  • No probate fees are included.
  • The estate tax is paid in addition to the tax paid on the Taxable Income in that year.
  • Spousal survival scenario: The Tax on Estate is displayed as if there was no rollover of assets to the surviving spouse. But this value of Tax on Estate is not actually paid in the projections for a scenario where there is a surviving spouse. 

• Estate after Tax - Value of the estate after paying all taxes.
  • This field does not include any Probate Fees.

• Estate after Tax (in real dollars) - Value of Estate after Tax, adjusted for inflation (the actual purchasing power of the Estate after Tax as of that time).