What You Actually Keep From Every Kind of Dividend

Dividends are the one form of investment income where the government has quietly built you a tax break — and where most Canadians never bother to find out how big it is, where it applies, and where it silently disappears. So you get people paying full freight on US dividends they should have sheltered, holding American stocks in the exact wrong account, and treating the T5 that lands in their inbox as a mystery number they just plug into the software and hope for the best.