Tax News

Tax News

Your taxes in action: the Phoenix fiasco

Ottawa’s bureaucracy is spending hundreds of millions to fix a troubled pay system

By Simon Doyle |September 22, 2017

3 min read

Tax News

What an interest rate rise would mean for prescribed loans

Effects on spousal and employee loans

By Doug Carroll |September 22, 2017

3 min read

Tax News

Why clients can’t rely on T-slips

They must always double-check

By Jamie Golombek |September 22, 2017

3 min read

Tax News

Shedding light on the CPP survivor benefit

Explaining a poorly understood mechanism

By Lea Koiv |September 22, 2017

11 min read

Industry

Tax proposals to have harmful effects on small biz: CFIB

88% of business owners indicate that the proposed changes will make it more difficult for their small business to grow and create jobs.

By Staff |September 21, 2017

2 min read

Tax News

Defining a family unit for the principal residence exemption

A reader wrote to ask about this principal residence exemption-related income tax folio, which states: 2.13 For a property to be a taxpayer’s principal residence for a particular year, he or she must designate it as such for the year and no other property may have been so designated by the taxpayer for the year. […]

By Staff |September 20, 2017

2 min read

Industry

No to tax on insurance products: poll

Most Saskatchewan voters — 73% — oppose the government’s decision to add PST to a range of insurance products, reveals a poll conducted by Maple Leaf Strategies on behalf of Advocis. Read: Tax on insurance premiums in Saskatchewan coming soon Further, 77% say taxing insurance is “unfair,” and 73% say the tax will cause people […]

By Staff |September 18, 2017

1 min read

Industry

The summer’s most active tax lobbyists

The results will surprise you: it’s not the usual suspects.

By Simon Doyle |September 12, 2017

3 min read

Economic Indicators

B.C. budget hikes tax on rich

British Columbia’s minority New Democrat government says it is starting to build the province all residents want, tabling a budget update that promises to hire 3,500 teachers and build rental units and homes for the homeless — while hiking taxes at the top end. The budget includes tax measures that lowers the corporate income tax […]

By Staff, with files from The Canadian Press |September 12, 2017

4 min read

Industry

Watch for this TFSA trading pitfall

Frequent trading in a TFSA could be deemed carrying on a business

September 7, 2017

4 min read

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