Charitable giving

Expect welcome changes to spousal trust rules

The Department of Finance is currently considering input from professional bodies in the tax and estate planning community.

By Florence Marino |December 9, 2015

3 min read

Estate Planning

Help clients give away assets

Gifting assets during one’s lifetime is fraught with legal and tax traps

By Elaine Blades |November 27, 2015

4 min read

Industry

Most plan to donate about $700 next year

Eighty percent of Canadians plan to make a charitable donation in the next 12 months.

By Staff |November 12, 2015

1 min read

Tax News

Tax-efficient gifts: sharing donation credits at death

Donating to charity can be rewarding, both personally and financially.

By Wilmot George |November 10, 2015

4 min read

Planning and Advice

P.K. Subban makes $10M donation to Montreal kids’ hospital

Montreal Canadiens player P.K. Subban is donating $10 million Montreal General Children’s Hospital, says the NHL.

By Staff |September 16, 2015

1 min read

Tax News

Tax preparer extradited to Canada for fraud

Canada has extradited a former tax preparer from Italy to serve a 10-year sentence for tax fraud, CRA says.

By Staff |September 8, 2015

2 min read

Tax News

New donation rules would cut tax for rich

Publicly traded securities donated to registered charities are exempt from capital gains tax. The government is now eyeing implementation of a Budget 2015 proposal that would give the same treatment to private company shares and real estate, notes Kim Moody, director at Moodys Gartner Tax Law in Calgary.

By Staff |August 31, 2015

1 min read

Industry

How compounding goodwill raises your brand

Like compound interest, compounding goodwill means that the efforts you put forward compound and then return back to you in increasing amounts. Here's how we use that to build our brand.

By Craig White and Grant White |July 8, 2015

3 min read

Estate Planning

More flexibility for estate donations

Last year’s budget changed some of the donation rules, and this article will examine how these changes will impact estate planning.

By Jacqueline Power |May 1, 2015

4 min read

Tax News

Don’t forget the first-time donors’ super credit

Few Canadians are claiming the first-time donors super tax credit, reports The Globe and Mail. The credit, which was launched in 2013, lets people donating to registered charities for the first time claim an additional 25% non-refundable tax credit. The Globe says uptake has been just 20% of what the government predicted it would be. […]

By Staff |March 2, 2015

1 min read

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