SMES: Carbon Tax Rebates on the Way?

July 15 was an important day for carbon-tax weary taxpayers. A Canada Carbon Rebate payment was  made to individuals who have filed their 2023 personal tax returns.  What about the long-awaited $2.5 billion Carbon Tax Rebate For Small Businesses? The delivery date and amounts to be received remain elusive, but one thing is clear: many businesses will have disqualified themselves by missing the July 15 date for filing 2023 T2 returns.  Here’s what you need to know. 

Yesterday’s CE Summit: Year-End Tax Planning was a hit, and it’s only the beginning of the professional development options available from Knowledge Bureau to give you the tools you need to help a variety of client profiles this upcoming tax season. Take the micro-course collection, New Issues in Year-End Tax Planning and join us at the January Advanced T1 Tax Update, which will be held virtually, as well as in Toronto and Calgary. Save on tuition with an event pass, and take note of early-bird deadlines.

In Winnipeg on November 14?   The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education CFEE.org  want to invite you to a light lunch and launch of an important new financial capability resource from 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CDT at the Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, entitled: Money and You: Seniors Edition.   This event will feature guest speakers from the program sponsor, IG Wealth Management, CFEE CEO Gary Rabbior, and by video from Evelyn Jacks, the primary author. A program demo from CFEE COO Kevin Maynard will also be featured.

If you need answers to complex questions your high net worth families are asking about their income and capital after personal, corporate, trust and cross-border taxation, or when new triggers are driving financial decisions your clients want to make, working with a Real Wealth Manager (RWM™) can help you answer and execute on them.  This is particularly so in today’s complex world when financial peace of mind – and answers to tough questions – both are more difficult to come by. 

No, this isn’t fake news or a late day Halloween trick:  the CRA announced just before 2 p.m. on October 31 that they are indeed extending the deadline for the filing of the UHT-2900 return.  This return was due at midnight on October 31 to report residential property ownership for the 2022 calendar year.  The new deadline is April 30, 2024.  No interest or penalties will be levied in the meantime.   The Underused Housing Tax (UHT) is a controversial new tax in Canada because it is much more broad-based than first announced. This and more year end tax planning news will be covered in tomorrow’s Virtual CE Summit from Knowledge Bureau, available in a recorded online version after the event. 

There are 6.2 million persons with disabilities in Canada, 23% of whom live in poverty. Soon there will be tax-assisted relief, but unfortunately not for at least a year.  The Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) was passed into law under Bill C-22, June 22, 2023 to help. The payments are expected to start in December 2024 and delivered through the tax system.  In the meantime, people living with disabilities and their caregivers can inform themselves of existing tax support for the 2023 tax year and the time to get ready is now.  Here’s what you need to know: 

In a recent Tax Court of Canada Case a taxpayer won and important appeal when the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) invoked the General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR) on October 17, 2021.  Here’s what happened: