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:

Finance Canada has released the fine print that will both introduce and limit a new tax break, when arm’s length sales of real property situated in Canada or the shares of a private small business corporation are donated to charity by a resident taxpayer, effective the 2017 tax year. 

Is the federal government silencing human rights organizations and advocacy groups through restrictive provisions in the Income Tax Act?

Elections bring with them important opportunities to discuss Canada’s future social, economic and tax policies. So, it’s appropriate to go back to “tax school” to find out the tax consequences of making political contributions.

It’s too bad the messaging that came with the increased Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) was incomplete when the lump-sum bonuses were distributed on July 20. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Andy Fisher is a Partner in the Insolvency & Restructuring practice at Farber Financial Group and leads the firm’s Small Business Restructuring practice.

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