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Most companies buying renewable energy certificates aren’t actually reducing emissions

Accounting sustainability standards must change say academics
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Canada faces huge physical costs from climate change, making net zero a great investment

Tackling climate change more than pays for itself say new finance study
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Substantive CCPCs: Is the tax deferral game over?

Allan Lanthier: Ottawa’s new substantive Canadian-controlled private corporation rules should end tax planning that seeks to manipulate non-CCPC status
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More diversity among inductees of 2022 Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame

Selection committee addresses omissions noted by Canadian Accountant in 2021
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CEOs are hindering LGBTQ+ equality in the workplace

Should securities regulators require boards of directors to have LGBTQ+ representation?
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The federal budget hits private corporations with foreign affiliates

Allan Lanthier: Why Canada’s federal budget included tax measures against CCPCs with CFAs earning foreign accrual property income
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The Des Groseillers decision: Charitable donations of stock options

Allan Lanthier: The resolution of a Quebec tax dispute is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, which has recently been taxpayer-friendly
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Why Canadian accountants are needed in human capital reporting

Nick Shepherd explains why a recent corporate case shows the financial cost of ignoring HR intangible assets
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The economic case for the mining industry to support carbon taxation

Rather than opposing carbon taxes, the mining sector should become a global advocate for aggressive carbon targets
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The OECD corporate minimum tax: a disaster in the making

Allan Lanthier says it's time for accounting firms, bodies and industry groups to challenge the flaws in the OECD global corporate minimum tax plan
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Everyone should have a say on the future of green accounting

Canada may adopt international sustainability reporting rules that focus on investors, not the public, warn three Canadian accounting professors
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10 things everyone should know about taxation

Why Québec Premier François Legault’s ethically and legally questionable tax on the unvaxxed was not a tax but a levy
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Corporate taxes can be good for shareholders: Why some actually want their companies to pay tax

Accounting Professor Andrew Bauer on non-integrated tax systems
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Twelve rules that protect the tax collector

Taxpayers have minimal procedural rights says Vern Krishna of TaxChambers LLP
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Alberta oilpatch may face lending crunch as financial regulators worry about the risks of climate change

Banks, lenders will be less keen to lend to the oilsands, says Alberta economist
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The Robillard decision:  The uncertain world of death and taxes

Allan Lanthier on confusion in surplus stripping and the post-mortem pipeline, due to a recent Tax Court of Canada decision
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The importance of community in accounting

Professional networks lead to continuous innovation and camaraderie in the accounting profession, says Twyla Verhelst, Director of the Accountant Channel at FreshBooks
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The latest Canadian tax scam has a Caribbean flavour

Allan Lanthier looks at the BVI Switch tax avoidance scheme used by wealthy Canadians and what action could be taken by the federal finance minister
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The irony behind Québec’s proposed health tax 

Fred O'Riordan, National Leader of Tax Policy at EY Canada, on whether Quebec's health tax on the unvaccinated can "move the needle"
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Alta Energy: Has the GAAR become toothless? – Part II

In part two of his two-part series, Allan Lanthier highlights areas of the Supreme Court's Alta Energy decision that are open to vigorous debate
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Alta Energy: Has the GAAR become toothless? – Part I

In part one of a two-part series, Allan Lanthier looks at the details of the Alta Energy tax avoidance decision by the Supreme Court of Canada
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The Calm Before The Insolvency Storm?

David Bish of Torys LLP on the current insolvency climate and forecast for 2022
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After a big year for cryptocurrencies, what’s on the horizon in 2022?

Three Canadian accounting academics review the year in cryptocurrencies
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s politics are anti-Indigenous — so why do media outlets still quote them?

Canadian journalists should be wary of groups like the CTF, says Sociology Professor Kyle Willmott
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The pandemic and productivity silver linings

Tax Lawyer Dean Blachford on some of the ways that Ottawa-area accounting firms have adapted and innovated during the Covid-19 pandemic