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Why is the CRA still targeting pandemic aid recipients?

Continued collection attempts against people who received pandemic benefits shows a punitive logic that doesn’t fit the scale of the alleged transgressions
Profession

Sunday News Roundup 26.01.25: Davos D-Day, audit watchdogs defanged, and more Canadian accounting news

Our weekly Canadian accounting news roundup includes the Mark Carney in Davos, the PCAOB and FRC pressured, PwC Canada and the Martel Ponzi, and much more
Business

CEO pay at record highs as workers struggle to make ends meet: report

To reign in some of the wage disparity, a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers two solutions: a millionaire tax and a wealth tax
Profession

Sunday News Roundup 26.01.18: CPA Canada membership model, fatiguing AI slop, the dealbook and more Canadian accounting news

Our weekly Canadian accounting news roundup includes the benefits of national membership, the downside of AI for accountants and businesses, and much more
Business

Drop-off in renewable projects will deprive MD of major tax revenues

Alberta’s moratorium on renewable projects has created a hangover effect for municipal districts that received the benefit of steady tax revenue for years
Business

While residents struggle, Peel Region proposes massive tax hike

Difficult to understand need for 80% increase in Peel police budget over five years, say property taxpayers representing Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga
Business

BC towns fight pipeline tax break that would gut municipal budgets

Proposed changes to taxes paid by oil companies would mean $100 more in property tax for every man, woman and child in towns along BC pipeline routes
Business

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Ambitious spending and sweeping strategies define the new budget but execution risks could turn a bold vision into a missed opportunity says Rachel Samson
Business

Peel police board approves 9.9 per cent budget hike, one year after passing an unprecedented $144M spending increase

Residents and local leaders in Mississauga are again raising affordability concerns over property taxes as Peel Police Services budget hike goes to Council
Business

This Port Dover golf course could be yours for a song in tax sale

While tax sales for unpaid property taxes can be an opportunity to purchase a property far below market value, it’s also buyer beware for budding barons
Business

Canada’s tax agency may be the key to driving dangerous truck operators off Peel's roads

The Canada Revenue Agency could solve the dangerous trucking problem in Peel Region overnight if it enforced laws for contractors and underground economies
Business

Facing wage pressures, YRP requests double-digit budget hike

A proposed York Regional Police budget hike would account for most of the overall tax levy in one of the lowest municipal property tax regions in Ontario