A couple of middle age sisters I know are pretty riled up about these changes. Neither works outside the home including in the 'family' business started by their father but I suspect, receive income sprinkling as probably do their offspring.  The business is about 50 years old & clearly exceedingly profitable given all the vacation homes in the extended family. A couple of years ago their father told me he had just finished restructuring so even his gr'children would benefit from the co.   While he may have incurred risk in the first few years of business, maybe even the first 10, there's no justification for all these 'non-working' family members to receive income sprinkling.  How is this fair? My family can't sprinkle the one income (T4) that's coming into our house. Don't tell me we're not incurring risk or losing sleep at night: it isn't a public service job we're talking about and there's no pension plan or stock options.