S is for SPLIT. Income splitting is a strategy that involves transferring a portion of income from someone who's in a high tax bracket to a person who is in a lower tax clump. It may even be possible to lessen tax on the transferred income to zero if this person, doesn't have other taxable income. Normally, the other person is either your spouse or common-law spouse, but it can also be your children. Whenever it is easy to transfer income to someone in a lower tax bracket, it should be done. If ...