Taxation
Business
Report shows Alberta tax revenue from renewables up 92 per cent
Alberta's moratorium on wind and solar projects has chilled renewables despite the benefits of tax revenue, job creation and cheap energy to taxpayers
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Business
Officials to Queen's Park: Fee freeze to aid home building hurts local taxpayers
Conservation authorities in London, Ontario want the Doug Ford government to reverse its province-wide freeze on fees that benefit home-building developers
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Practice
Crossing the border, part three: Individual retirement plan tax issues for Canadian and American expatriates
In the final part of a three-part series on cross-border tax issues, Professor George Gonzalez looks at tax situations in which U.S. residents with IRA and Roth IRA funds relocate to Canada
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Practice
Crossing the border, part two: Individual retirement plan tax issues for Canadian and American expatriates
In the second part of a three-part series on cross-border tax issues, Professor George Gonzalez looks at Canadian residents with RRSP and TFSA funds who expatriate to the United States
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Practice
Taxpayers Beware: CRA’s new tools for catching tax evasion, avoiding tax debt
As David J Rotfleisch explains, the most recent federal budget included plans to hold tax professionals accountable as well as notices of non-compliance
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Practice
Crossing the border, part one: Individual retirement plan tax issues for Canadian and American expatriates
In the first part of a three-part series on cross-border tax issues, Professor George Gonzalez presents an overview of individual employee retirement plans in Canada and the United States
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Practice
Active Asset Management v. The King Case Study
Lorne Saltman of Gardiner Roberts LLP on a recent Tax Court dispute as to whether declared dividends and promissory notes constituted a transfer of property
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Business
Municipalities not happy about Alberta changes to unpaid oil and gas property taxes
Residential property taxes may increase due to backtracking by the Alberta government over unpaid municipal taxes owed by oil and gas industry producers
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Practice
Guide to Canadian tax rules on benefits arising from use of corporate assets (e.g., money, trips, boats, cars, space trips, etc.
What happens when business owners dip into their corporation's pockets to pay for personal expenses? Potentially dire consequences, says David J Rotfleisch
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Business
Feds push carbon capture projects forward with public money
Critics say taxpayers will pay the full cost of a dubious Strathcona Resources carbon capture and sequestration project funded by the Canada Growth Fund
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Practice
What does Tax Court decide? What does Federal Court decide? Supreme Court clarifies jurisdictions
Through its decisions on Dow Chemical and Iris Technologies, the Supreme Court of Canada has clarified tax appeal jurisdictions, explains David J Rotfleisch
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Thought Leaders
Churches don’t pay taxes. Should they?
Many Canadians don’t realize that religious properties are tax exempt, however, this privilege is increasingly being debated as organized religion recedes
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