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With the Law Society of Alberta’s recent announcement launching Locum Connect, we thought it was an important time to make sure solo practitioners and small firms understand the difference between using a tax lawyer, and using an accountant. Although accountants may...

Canadian Tax Haiku of the week: Tax Court appeals: Be sure you are advised The stakes are too high Introduction A few weeks ago we discussed the process of handling disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency (hereinafter, CRA) once they have initiated an audit and up to...

How Bureaucratic Inertia at the CRA is Exposing You to Risk  Tax Haiku of the Week Slow moving glaciers, Impossible to control, Taxpayers beware. Introduction Most of us are aware that in addition to glaciers simply being really old, really big ice, they are also...

The Regularization of Undeclared Assets May Soon be Changing SO DO IT NOW OR FACE CONSEQUENCES! Tax Haiku of the Week Confess your tax sins! Income not declared?  Please seek Absolution now! INTRODUCTION The Canadian Voluntary Disclosures Program (the...

How the CBC got it wrong again. Really wrong. Again. Tax Haiku of the Week CBC is wrong, Begging them to find sources, Like Jerry Springer. The CBC published an opinion piece on Sunday with the sensationalist headline “The Liberals are considering loosening the reins...

Canadian Tax Haiku of the Week: (Property Transfer Tax) Tax will not work, ‘cuz  Real property buyers just Want to hide money BC officially imposed a 15% “property transfer tax” on foreigners wishing to purchase property in BC.[1] Premier Christy Clark...

Harper government partnered with industry group fighting CRA over KPMG case This is a non-story and the insinuation of the headline is false and biased. It implies that the PM was complicit in tax evasion, which is just untrue. I hate the Tories, but I hate crappy tax...

Dear Buddy, You know who you are. We were great friends in Jr. High and High School but drifted apart over the years. And now you are running for the NDP. I know my die-hard socialist mother would be so proud to have had you as her son right now, rather than...

Canadian Tax Haiku of the Week: Duty of care for Tax shelters? Is it really All CRA’s fault? Introduction In Scheuer,[1] a group of taxpayers who participated in a tax shelter donation scheme made a claim in negligence against the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”). The...