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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:

Closing the Wealth Inequality Gap: Seven Key Questions

The old adage says that “money can’t buy happiness.” This is now statistically true.

GREAT GRADS! Top Five Tips to Reduce Anxiety About Public Speaking

Millennials (ages 18 to 35) are confident in their abilities and fairly optimistic about the future, but they have greater stress levels than any other generation before them. Why? Despite their many traits for success—ambition, drive and the ability to work hard—it is difficult for them to find opportunities to prove themselves.

On The Move? Tax Relief Can Reduce Financial Stress

Summer is here and it’s moving season. Exciting yet stressful, this life event can be lucrative from a tax viewpoint. 

Trees Win, But Average Tax Refund Up To $1,729

For the 2015 tax filing season, the average Canadian overpaid their taxes by $1,729 during the year—that’s just over $140 a month that’s not going into TFSAs, RRSPs, RESPs, RDSPs, or non-registered accounts to benefit Canadian families in their future.

New Form Defines Tax Exemptions for Status Indians

When is employment income earned by an Aboriginal person exempt from income tax?

No Fooling - Proprietorship Returns Due June 15

Time’s up for procrastinators... midnight on Monday June 15 is the T1 tax filing deadline for unincorporated businesses.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Do you agree that public trustees, guardians and departments supporting Indigenous Services should be able to certify impairments for the Disability Tax Credit?

  • Yes
    13 votes
    18.31%
  • No
    58 votes
    81.69%