A Challenge for New Clients: How to Choose a Trusted Advisor

If you’re in business for yourself, you have a unique opportunity to build wealth in an asset class that others don’t have: equity in a business enterprise that some day may be sold for millions of dollars. In addition, that business can spin off income for family members that can provide significant tax advantages, done well. Understanding how to realize on this asset requires the help of a trusted financial advisory team. Who should be on that team and how do you find them? This is a challenge your next new business clients may wrestle with. Here are some tips on how you can open discussions to help them:

Estate Planning: Finding Financial Peace of Mind Despite Next Gen Despair

Gender Inclusion: Acknowledging and Servicing Transgender, Non-Binary and LGBTQ2+ People. It has never been more apparent than now that gender norms are changing, and these changes are here to stay.

Good news! CRA is reviewing previously denied claims for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) under expanded eligibility criteria available for the 2021 tax filing year. 

Preserving capital in the current environment includes three goals: managing the financial triggers caused by the current environment, understanding the tax-efficient "wealth horizon", and preserving income-producing capital in advance of transition events: retirement and death of a taxpayer. 

Starting in 2020, most taxpayers between the age of 25 and 65 began earning an entitlement to the Canada Training Credit of $500 per year. In order to claim the credit, the taxpayer has to have eligible tuition fees for the year. So, what’s the difference between claiming the tuition credit and the Canada Training Credit?

With the "ramped-up" activity of the Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA") relating to taxpayer audits, you and your clients will want to take pre-emptive measures to manage potential audit trouble spots.