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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: 79 votes
80.61%
No: 19 votes
19.39%
 

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Is a Loss on My Personal Residence Deductible?

What are the tax consequences when you sell your home, a personal use property, for a loss or make a bundle on grandma’s antique silver goblets, a listed personal use property? Here are the rules.

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Why Tax Pros Are Worth Their Salt – Part II

A follow-up on excellence at CRA. MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist, Alan Rowell, reporting.

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Hear Their Stories: More Than Pretty Darn Good

If you haven’t yet read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, we highly recommend it. In it you’ll learn about the magic number for greatness: 10,000 hours of hard practice.

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Who Is An Employee?

When it comes to tax preparation, it’s important to clearly understand the definition of employed vs. self-employed.

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Back to School: Should Costs of Developing Promising Young Athletes Be Deductible?

It’s back to school time and as every parent knows, arts and athletics are expensive activities for children to partake in at this time of the year. 

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