Pre-Budget Consultations Now Underway!

Pre-budget consultations are now underway for this fall’s Federal Budget and Canadians are invited to share their views with Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne through an online survey. Over the next several weeks, the Finance Minister and his team will meet with various stakeholder groups and review public submissions before finalizing the budget.

Hundreds of leaders in the tax and financial services took part in a significant educational event last week:  transition planning featuring the new federal budget provisions including the Graduate Trust Estate rules. 

Evelyn Jacks, President of Knowledge Bureau, kicked off Toronto’s Distinguished Advisor Workshop with an information-packed economic update.

James Bell, Director of Tax Solutions Canada (a member of the Farber Financial Group), is the perfect person to reveal tips, traps, and pitfalls of working with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Executors who face the problem of how to pay the taxes on the estate where the capital is tied up in capital assets have a way to solve the problem – if they can find it.

Payroll deduction tables have been adjusted as of July 1 for BC, NB, NL and YK as a result of changes announced in the 2015 provincial and territorial budgets.

There’s a Yin and a Yang to Canadian economic news these days.