Mark Your Calendar: Critical Deadlines for May and June

Tax season never truly ends, it seems, as there are many more upcoming tax filing, investment planning and education milestones to discuss with your clients over the next six months. Check out our handy checklist below and then test yourself – what are the conversation openers you’ll use and with which clients? It’s your opportunity to shine with every member of the household:

A bright spot in economic news:  farmers are thriving!  Farming is no easy way to make a living, subject as it is to the whims of weather, disease, currency fluctuations, and more. So it’s good to hear from a Statistics Canada report published on May 25, 2016, that Canadian farmers are doing better than one might think.

When a depreciable asset is disposed of and the result is a negative balance in the CCA class, that negative balance is normally included in the taxpayer’s income (as recapture of CCA) in the year of disposition.

Planning for retirement is an old issue, but now there’s a new take on it: pre-retirement planning.  In the past, the focus was on how much pension income was needed to replace actively earned income from employment, to live comfortably until death. But these days retirement is anything but traditional and with employer pensions on the decline, especially defined benefit plans, many other factors must be taken into account when planning for life after work.

In today’s tax and economic climate, multi-generational planning faces new risks and  understanding the opportunities in the management of corporate investments is a huge issue. Uncover the latent potential in these resources for investment and retirement planning by joining John Natale, AVP Tax, Retirement & Estate Planning Services, at DAC this November 6 – 9 in San Diego.

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." Julie Andrews

Your client, a financial advisor himself, is retiring from his practice and therefore selling non-financial assets, financial assets, real estate assets and a business. Where will the tax be paid and how much will be paid in the hands of the individuals, corporations or trusts involved?