This document summarizes various financial planning issues for professionals and small business owners in Alberta, Canada. It discusses: 1) Personal and corporate tax rates in Alberta, noting the advantages of dividends and deferring income in a corporation. 2) Common ownership structures for businesses and how they can be reorganized to protect non-active assets, allow for income splitting, and multiply capital gains exemptions. 3) Using life insurance to fund buy-sell agreements between business owners and the different options for where to hold the policies. 4) Recent changes to Alberta legislation allowing spouses and children of certain professionals to own non-voting shares of a professional corporation, enabling better income splitting.