News & Events

• COVID-19 Tax Relief
• Interplay Between Spouse, Equivalent to Spouse, and Caregiver Credits
• Allowable Business Investment Losses

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal government passed Bill C-14 on April 11, 2020 to implement the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (“CEWS”). The CEWS is a 75% wage subsidy program intended to encourage businesses to keep individuals employed or re-hired as a result of COVID-19 and to facilitate employers to resume normal operations […]

• Update on Charity Donation Tax Shelters
• Deducting Interest Expense
• Leap Year Reminder: Trust Return Deadline
• Don’t Do Too Much Trading in Your TFSA
• New Standard for the CRA Needing to be “Reasonable”
• International Tax Rules – Massive Changes
• Around the Courts

• Taxation on Death
• Significance of Canadian Residency
• Update on Employee Stock Options
• Around the Courts

• Increased Basic Personal Credit
• Superficial Losses
• Section 85 Rollovers to Corporation
• Around the Courts

• Estate Planning and Estate Freezing
• The Tax Cost of Leaving (or Losing) Your Job
• Around the Courts

• Deduction of Interest Expense
• Spousal and Child Support Payments
• Non-Arm’s Length Transfers of Property
• Around the Courts

• Income Attribution Rules
• Unused Losses – Carry Them Back or Forward
• Overview of Tax Filing and Payment Dates
• Campground Businesses and the Small Business Deduction
• Around the Courts
• Quebec Filing Extension

• Tax Quiz
• Bare Trust and Nominee Agreements
• Around the Courts
• Tax Quiz – The Answers
• Erratum August 2019 Tax Letter

• Proposed Changes to Employee Stock Option Rules
• Shareholder Loans
• Personal-Use Property
• Transfer of Dividend to Higher Income Spouse
• Reserve for Unearned Income
• Around The Courts