8:15 AM
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
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8:30 TO 9:45 AM
Evelyn Jacks
MFA™, DFA-Tax Services Specialist™
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PERSONAL TAX UPDATE: WHAT’S NEW IN PERSONAL TAXATION? Shake out the cobwebs and find the Dark Horses!
- What’s New at CRA – Changes on the 2022 federal and provincial tax returns, schedules worksheets & over 60 auxiliary forms to review, tax rates & brackets
- What’s New at Finance Canada -Tax Theory Changes for 2022 and 2023 including
- COVID-19 Benefits and Repayments, Inflation supports, New penalties and 2 new tax returns, home workspace, new registered investment opportunities, reporting crypto currency transactions and more
- New Benefits and Clawbacks – Canada Dental Benefit, CAI, CCB, CTC. CWB, fuel charge proceeds return for farmers, air quality improvement tax credit.
- Deductions: Business net income calculations, New Auto expensing rules, RRSP, New Labour Mobility Deduction for Tradespeople, CGD, ITC,
- Non-Refundable Credits:
- DTC Enhancements and Notices of Determination, medical expenses
- Doubling Home Accessibility Tax Credit Effective January 1, 2022
- Changes to Home Buyers’ Tax Credit
- Medical Expense Tax Credit changes
- New Multi-Generational Reno Tax Credit
- Student interest deductions
- Underused Housing Tax Return: filing requirements
- Changes overview - taxpayer profiles: families, seniors, investors, proprietors
- Tax Facts Precision Update: CE Savvy PD™ Quizzes: Shake out the cobwebs and find the Dark Horses!
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9:45 – 10:00 AM
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COMMUNICATIONS BREAK
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10:00 – 10:30 AM
Evelyn Jacks
MFA™, DFA-Tax Services Specialist™
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FOCUS ON EMPLOYMENT INCOME, DEDUCTIONS & CREDITS: SHORT SNAPPERS!
- Employment Income and Benefits
- Home based employment deductions (T777) and (T2200)
- Employed commission salespeople, sales expenses, home office and auto expenses
- Long distance truckers, tradespeople, artists, forestry workers (TL2)
- Canadian forces personnel, Executives and their stock options, The Clergy (T1223)
- Working families – disability supports care, childcare (T778), moving expenses (T1M), CWB (Sch 6)
- Students – income, deductions and credits (Sch 7)
- Northern residents (T2222)
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10:30 – 10:40 AM
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COMMUNICATIONS BREAK
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10:40 – 11:45 AM
Alan Rowell
RWM™, MFA™, DFA-Tax Services Specialist™
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FOCUS ON PENSION INCOME: TAX FILING TIPS AND TRAPS
Understanding the investments behind the key T-slips and the goals for the money is not always obvious. In this case-driven session, drill down on the types of investments that drive the slip entry errors:
- Filing/Planning Tips and Traps: “Take It Now or Defer?” (OAS, CPP, RPPs, RRSP); “What is it and Why?” (Annuities, RRIFs & ALDAs); “Secrets in Pension Income Splitting”, and “Make Foreign Pensions Count” (T1135,Tax Treaties and FTC)
- Secrets in reporting income entries: T3, T4As, T4RIF, T4RSP, T5, T5008 AND MORE
- Forms Appendix Review: Schedule 7, RC249, 267, 268, 298, 339, 4177, 4178, 4625, T1-OVP-S, T746, T1032, T1043, T1090, T2019, T2030, T2033, T2201, T2205, T3012
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11:45 – 12:15 PM
Gerry Vittoratos
MTax
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FAMILY OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES
Learn how to optimize provisions on the personal tax return for families within common family filing profiles: students, married couples with children, divorcing couples, retirees, disabled people, those maximizing charitable donation claims during their lifetimes and on terminal filings.
With Thanks to Our Special Guest Partner:
Thomson Reuters, Tax & Accounting (Canada)
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12:15 – 12:45 PM
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LUNCH BREAK
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12:45 – 1:45 PM
Alan Rowell
RWM™, MFA™, DFA-Tax Services Specialist™
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
- Home Office Rules – tips and traps – simplified and detailed methods
- Tax-Free First Home Savings Account (FHSA)
- Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit
- Personal Residences - Principal Residence Exemptions
- Effect of 2ND personal residences on PRE – calculations
- Online Platform Rentals - GST implications
- Legacies: $100,00 Capital Gains Exemption
- Residential Property Flipping Rule, plus new deemed loss rules
- Residences held as inventory, capital gains reserves
- Personal Residences as Rental Property: Change of use rules
- Additional Holdings: farm properties, condos, multiple unit dwellings, REITs, AMT
- Foreign Ownership – Canadians with property abroad
- Foreign Ownership – non-Canadians - 2 Year ban on foreign investment in housing
- Forms Appendix Review: T776, T2091, T664, T691, T1135, Underused Housing Return
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1:45 to 1:55 PM
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COMMUNICATIONS BREAK
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1:55 to 3:00 PM
Larry Frostiak
FCPA, FCA, CFP, TEP, RWM™
In Toronto
Dr. Dean Smith
PHD, CFP, TEP, CPA, CA, RWM™
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FOCUS ON INCOME FROM PROPERTY & INVESTMENTS
This session is a broadly-based, comprehensive overview of how various types of investment and property income is taxed and how such income should be reported for tax purposes by the investor/taxpayer. The materials will discuss
- dividends from public companies, private company dividends
- foreign investment income,
- income from limited partnerships
- capital transactions including identical properties, a variety of securities transactions, hedging transactions
- loss applications
- claiming of carrying charges; in particular, interest expenses
- Planning - corporate owner-managers: finding tax free income within the corporation
- Forms Appendix Review: T1A, T123, T657, T936, T1105, T1170, T1212, T1255, T2017
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3:00 – 3:15 PM
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COMMUNICATION BREAK
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3:15 to 4:15 PM
Larry Frostiak
FCPA, FCA, CFP, TEP, RWM™
In Toronto
Dr. Dean Smith
PHD, CFP, TEP, CPA, CA, RWM™
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FOCUS ON BUSINESS OWNERS – T2125 and Schedules
- Reporting income: fiscal year-ends, cash vs. accrual, GAAR, reportable transactions
- Partnerships: arm’s length, spousal partnerships, with adult children
- Micro Business Profiles – tips and traps: consultants, child care, artists, construction, inventory-based ventures (Avon, etc), online platform sales, professionals
- Farming & fishing - inventory provisions and drought deferrals
- Acquiring Assets: Immediate and accelerated expensing: auto, tangible and intangible properties; buy vs. lease calculations
- Deductions: full, restricted, mixed use, conferences & training, cell phones, GST/HST, terminal losses, valuation on transfer of assets
- Loss applications
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4:15-4:30 PM
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CLOSING REMARKS
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