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Tax Tip: The More Obscure Medical Expenses

Are you claiming all the medical expenses you or your clients might be entitled to? 

It’s Curtains for Tax Cheats

Offshore Tax Cheats: the Finance Department wants You! The CRA will be empowered to pay you a “finder’s fee” for identifying international tax cheats as a result of new provisions in the March 21, 2013 budget. Further, businesses using “zapper” software to evade taxes by hiding or “suppressing” sales income will face stiff new penalties and criminal convictions – with fines in the 7 figures.

Evelyn Jacks: Report Your Foreign Holdings

Canadians with foreign holdings at any time in 2013 (not just at the end of the year), will need to provide more information to the CRA, starting with the 2013 tax year.

Featured Tool: EverGreen Explanatory Notes

Updated with details from Budget 2013, EverGreen is your ever-current online resource for answers to tax questions about personal and corporate tax, and the GST. Be more efficient this tax season with the most current information you need just a few clicks away. View the free demo today!

Featured Event: Audit Defense & Financial Educator Training

Learn the tools you need to defend your clients professionally in an e-Tax Audit. Join us in a city near you this May!

10-8 Plans: Budget Bolsters the Law After CRA Fishing Expeditions Made More Difficult in Court

Today's federal budget proposed to change the law both in respect of 10-8 plans and information required from third parties for the purposes of tax administration or enforcement. Here's the case...

Household Debt Now 165% of Disposable Income

Household debt in relation to disposable income rose to another record last quarter, and many are now wondering whether Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, was correct to assert that families are listening to his warnings about the risks of borrowing too much.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Do you believe our tax system needs to be reformed and if so, what would be your first improvement? If not, what do you like about it?

  • Yes
    61 votes
    98.39%
  • No
    1 votes
    1.61%