December 2025 Poll
It costs a lot more to go to work these days. Should the Canada Employment Credit of $1501 for 2026 be raised higher to account for this?DAC attendees CE Credits
Attendees of the 2015 Distinguished Advisor Conference will have the opportunity to claim up to 15 CE credit hours from the following regulators:
Fall DAW Leaves Attendees With a Wealth of Information.
Year-end tax planning, owner manager compensation, business transition planning and more were covered over the last few days at the fall Distinguished Advisor Workshop (DAW).
Business Valuation: A Critical Skill for Year End Planning with Business Owners
Knowledge Bureau’s Business Valuation for Advisors course will help an advisor become a valuable resource to their clients when considering business valuation issues.
Future Family Financials: Calculating Liberal Tax Changes.
How will the anticipated changes to the Family Tax Cuts under a new Liberal government look? We’ve crunched the numbers for you. The next Federal Budget and the 2016 indexing factors will confirm actual results; however, in reviewing estimates, we found a couple big winners: lower income families with children, and no income refundable tax credit filers with children.
Consumer Price Index for September Determines Indexation for 2016
Indexation of tax brackets and personal amounts for 2016 is determined by the average CPI numbers for the twelve months ending September 2015 (which were announced last week).
Should TFSA Accounts Be Topped Up?
It appears unlikely that investors who have already maximized their TFSA contribution room to $10,000 in 2015 will be asked to remove the extra $4500, should the new government make good on their pledge to repeal the $10,000 maximum contribution in favor of a $5500 annual amount.
