This Month’s Poll
In your view is a comprehensive personal and corporate tax reform necessary to make Canada's economy stronger in response to trade wars?Beef Up Your 2017 Canada Child Benefit Now
It’s unclear whether Canadians are really getting more from their Canada Child Benefit in 2016 over the Universal Child Care Benefit and family income splitting. That’s the subject of our October poll. However, at this time of the year there is lots a tax specialist can do to make sure your family maximizes the credit.
CPP Actuarial Report: Expected Return 3.9% to 2090
The 27th Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan provides some fascinating reading about Canada’s demographics and economy over the next 75 years, to 2090.
Finance Canada Report: Tax Revenues Increase, But Red Ink Flows
Year-end tax planning is important in 2016, especially in light of Finance Canada’s release of its Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada for Fiscal Year 2015–16 on October 7, 2016.
CPP Legislation Is Introduced
A Notice of Ways and Means Motion to Amend the Income Tax Act was introduced to enact changes to the Canada Pension Plan on October 6, 2016.
CPP Revisions a Good Reason to Learn Professional Tax Efficient Retirement Income Planning
There are lots of changes coming to retirement income planning, together with a whole new focus on how much is enough. . . a question being asked by all generations in the family. That’s why retirement planning is really about multi-generational planning.
Peer-to-Peer Learning is a Most Effective Way to Excel
There are so many tax planning changes being introduced for 2016 – 2017 that tax, bookkeeping or financial services professionals may have trouble keeping up with answers to their clients’ complex questions this year.
