The CRA confirmed its prescribed rate holds at 3 percent for a sixth consecutive quarter, even as rising Government of Canada bond yields raise the odds that the rate used to calculate it moves higher next year.

A 50% US tariff on Canadian goods takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday with no exemption and no runway. What advisors can still control sits inside the CCPC, not outside it.

Government of Canada yields just climbed to their highest since 2024, and the gap with the CRA's locked family loan rate has not been this wide in years.

A fifth straight quarter at 3 percent keeps the income-splitting loan strategy open, and the math says a sixth is likely.

A blowout jobs report moved the five-year bond yield within minutes. The CRA's prescribed rate held for a fifth straight quarter. Advisors need to know which conversation applies to which client.

CRA confirmed the Q4 rate this week based on July Treasury Bill yields. The rate itself is not the risk in a prescribed rate loan strategy. Missing the annual interest payment is.

Mortgage-linked bond yields are easing this week as oil's war premium unwinds, but the CRA's income-splitting rate is anchored to a completely different curve that has not moved in a year.

WTI's slide past seven per cent puts a specific number on five months of energy sector paper gains. Unlike 2024, the decision this time is not racing a rate change. It is racing the calendar, with Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision and Cenovus's earnings landing the same day.

Trump's 50% tariffs on wine, cement and a dozen other categories take effect August 19. For CCPC owners in the affected sectors, that date is now a planning deadline.

CRA's family loan rate has held at three per cent since mid-2025, its longest stable run since the pandemic-era floor, and the government's pre-Budget 2026 consultations are a reason to model the numbers now rather than later.

The mandatory six-year review of the trade agreement became an annual one after the United States declined to extend it on July 1, and that shift in frequency, not any single tariff line, is what changes the planning calculus for CCPC clients with U.S.-facing revenue.

The CRA's family loan rate holds at 3% for a fifth straight quarter, and today's bond market reaction to the Hormuz escalation is a live reminder of what sets the number that replaces it.

The United States declined to extend CUSMA for a new sixteen year term at the July 1 review, leaving the agreement in force but subject to annual renegotiation through 2036. For CCPC owners with cross border exposure, that changes the planning calculus now.

The CRA confirmed the family loan rate stays at 3 percent through September, the longest stretch of stability since the 1 percent era ended in 2022. With Government of Canada yields still above 3 percent, the income splitting window has not closed.

The July 1 non-renewal changed no tariff rates, but it shifted Canadian business owners from a six-year trade policy horizon to an annual one.

CRA's family income splitting loan rate stays flat through September, while a narrower corporate rate quietly ticked higher.