CRA’s Callback Service for Tax Pros Pilot
Are you a tax professional with years of experience? Have you ever felt frustrated after calling the CRA, having spent hours on hold, wasting your client’s or employer’s time, only to speak to CRA agents who aren’t qualified to answer your questions? The Auditor General of Canada was equally displeased in a scathing report last fall on wait times and accuracy levels at the CRA. Now a new CRA callback service may come to the rescue this tax season. Here is my experience with the pilot project so far:Poll is Close: Who Should Fund Child’s Education?
Knowledge Bureau’s August opinion poll is asking an important question about education funding and our readers are providing some thoughtful and vibrant answers; that’s why the poll results appear to be coming in neck and neck. What do you think?
Canada’s Would-Be Astronauts: What Financial Advice Would You Give?
Who knew Canadians are this adventuresome? Last week, CBC reported that close to 4000 people - most of them men – applied for one of two positions to be blasted into space. If any life event change speaks to the need for immediate tax, estate and family wealth planning, this would be it!
Qualified Tax and Accounting Professionals are in Demand
According to a recent survey by Robert Half, 2017 Salary Guide, Accounting and Finance, professionals with tax and audit experience are in particular demand in the public accounting sector and salaries in these areas are increasing. Tax accounting, in particular, is an excellent skill and a great “foot-in-the-door” to get experience and insights in an expanding industry.
New and Improved: Free Trials and CE Credit
Knowledge Bureau has improved the opportunity for our students to enrol risk free in our online educational products and earn CE credits while they are doing so. Whether you are a potential student, a prior student or an employer looking for training opportunities, check this out.
Life Purpose
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a person* will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." Henry Ford
Back to School: Teachers Get a New Tax Break
This month teachers return to the classroom to plot strategies and activities for the new school year, decorate the walls and devise new science experiments.
