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April 2025 Poll

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IRS Shutdown: Tips for Canadian Taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is operating again after a lengthy shutdown of the U.S. federal government that began in December 2018.  A tentative deal was negotiated* late on Tuesday to avert yet another one. Still, Canadians with cross-border tax obligations should understand the specific implications of government shutdowns - like that of the IRS - and the backlogs they cause, and plan accordingly with their tax filing specialists.

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Thought Leadership: Five Tips on Building Team Culture

For many organizations – especially those in the tax and financial services – now is the time to build team culture in advance of a busy season of client interaction. Success of the team depends on so many factors including the right skills, processes and evaluation. For leaders of the team, there are five essential steps to building team culture in good times and bad.

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Changes Coming to Trust Filings

The CRA has been provided funding of $79 million over a five-year period, and $15 million on an ongoing basis, to support the development of an electronic platform for processing T3 returns. The goal: to address the government’s concerns about “significant gaps” in trust filing. By the year 2021, there will be new requirements for filing trust returns, and advisors in tax and financial services will need to come up to speed on this issue.

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Tax Tips: Checklist for Rental Property Owners

Returns that include income from rental properties are often audited, so, it’s important to consider your increased tax compliance burden as a real estate investor. If this is your first year with a rental property, it’s especially important to set up the tax reporting and documentation properly for an audit-proof experience. Use this checklist to help:

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Tax Pros Endorse Paper-Filing Tax Returns

Between February 12, 2018 and January 6, 2019, only 13.1% of all tax returns (totaling 3.9 million) were paper-filed. With the vast majority of Canadians now filing electronically, we asked Knowledge Bureau Report readers whether paper-filing should be continued. A resounding 89% of respondents said “yes.”  Here’s why:

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