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This Week’s Edition of KBR:

July 2024 Poll

Starting in July, CRA will provide legal warnings to recover more than $9 billion of overpaid pandemic recovery benefits like CERB. Do you think that is fair?
Yes: 115 votes
83.33%
No: 23 votes
16.67%
 

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Know Your Client: Can We Improve on the Risk Profiling Process?

Are you providing an evidence-based and unbiased determination of your clients’ risk profile? Unsure? Be sure to register for DAC 2016 to hear Shawn Brayman speak about why this is critically important.

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Summer Publishing Schedule

It’s time for a little summertime R & R, so here’s how our publishing schedule will shake out: There will be no issue of KBR on July 6, 27, August 3 or 31. Enjoy the sunshine, because . . . Christmas is less than six months away!

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Life Purpose

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." Ellen DeGeneres

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Avoid Tax on Lump Sums on Retirement or Termination

Whenever possible, avoid adding a large lump sum to your taxable income in one tax year.  This can be especially problematic when a severance package or termination payment on retirement is received.

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First Budget Bill Passes, But Without Corporate Class Fund Changes

Bill C-15 Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1 has passed in parliament and has moved on to the Senate for approval.  This Bill implements some, but not all, of the tax measures introduced in the 2016 Federal Budget.

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