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Tax consequences when your client leaves Canada
Planning helps reduce the negative impacts
- By: Funda Dilaver
- January 7, 2021 January 7, 2021
- 14:00
Top 10 tax stories from 2020
There's a lot of tax news to review heading into a new year
- By: Staff
- December 24, 2020 December 24, 2020
- 09:34
CRA promotes public database to track employers using wage subsidies
For privacy reasons, the public registry does not include sole proprietors
- By: The Canadian Press
- December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020
- 16:43
Ontario exempting certain IPPs from pension legislation
The new rules will reduce the regulatory burden on plans
- By: Lea Koiv and William C. Kennedy
- December 17, 2020 December 17, 2020
- 12:26
As anxieties grow over CERB notices, Qualtrough says no requirement to repay now
The CRA has sent more than 441,000 letters asking CERB recipients to verify they met eligibility rules
- By: Jordan Press, The Canadian Press
- December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020
- 17:06
Tips for year-end tax planning
Consider Covid-19 benefits, tax-loss selling and more
- By: Michelle Schriver
- December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020
- 16:30
CRA provides new rules for claiming home office expenses
There's a temporary flat-rate method for up to $400, and a simplified "detailed" method with a new Form T2200S
- By: Rudy Mezzetta
- December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020
- 12:52
Restraints to testamentary freedom when drafting a will
Help your client avoid these pitfalls
- By: Keith Masterman
- December 10, 2020 December 14, 2020
- 14:00
Tax options for pandemic spending
From capital gains to wealth taxes, Jamie Golombek breaks down the Liberals' options
- By: Mark Burgess
- December 8, 2020 December 8, 2020
- 17:00
Tax-loss selling deadline approaches
If clients need their trades to settle in 2020, make sure they know their last chance to sell
- By: Staff
- December 7, 2020 November 26, 2020
- 13:00
Essential tax numbers: updated for 2021
Use this handy list of tax numbers as a quick reference
- By: Staff
- December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020
- 16:20
Liberals plan foreign buyers tax in bid to create affordable housing
The fiscal update said the feds plan to tax homeowners who use Canada to passively store wealth in housing
- By: Anita Balakrishnan, The Canadian Press
- December 1, 2020 December 1, 2020
- 16:58
Updated: Government moves ahead with relief for RDSP holders who lose DTC eligibility
Changes to take effect Jan. 1, 2021
- By: Melissa Shin, Rudy Mezzetta
- November 30, 2020 December 4, 2020
- 18:11
Feds to allow up to $400 for home office expenses
A proposal in the fall economic statement aims to provide a simplified claim process
- By: Rudy Mezzetta
- November 30, 2020 November 30, 2020
- 17:43
Employee stock option changes to take effect July 1
CCPCs and employers with annual gross revenues of $500 million or less will be excluded
- By: Mark Burgess
- November 30, 2020 November 30, 2020
- 17:15
Transferring a 401(k) or IRA to Canada
Issues and strategies for Canadians thinking about transferring their U.S.-based retirement plans
- By: Rebecca Hett
- November 26, 2020 December 21, 2020
- 14:04
Pandemic complicates discretionary trust payouts
Trustees must balance the interests of income and capital beneficiaries amid economic uncertainty
- By: Rudy Mezzetta
- October 30, 2020 November 3, 2020
- 09:00
Effective beneficiary designations when converting RRSPs to RRIFs
Help your client avoid these estate planning pitfalls
- By: Tim Brisibe
- October 2, 2020 September 30, 2020
- 09:00