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TAX SEASON UPDATE 2025
Dear Client, January 2025 Thank you for your continued business in 2024. Below I have highlighted various updates...
Jan 23
YEAR-END HOLIDAY TAX UPDATE
Dear Client, December 2023 Thank you for...
Dec 13, 2023
VACANT HOME TAX AND UNDERUSED HOUSING TAX – ALL BASES COVERED
There are two taxes—one city and one federal—for the whole issue of vacant or underused residential properties. This is a policy by both...
Apr 13, 2023
TAX SEASON UPDATE
Below I have highlighted both business and personal tax updates as a follow-up to the 2021 and 2022 Federal Budgets. There are...
Jan 6, 2023
SOME HOUSEKEEPING
Dear Client, I would like to draw your attention to two useful accounts, My Service Canada Account (MSCA), and the Ontario Business...
Dec 1, 2022
SOME PRACTICAL TIPS FOR CYBERSECURITY
Becoming more digital in a post-Covid world was a good thing. We became more efficient, more productive. But there is always a...
Oct 15, 2021
THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY – DEFICITS, INFLATION, PRODUCTIVITY AND TAXES
You can touch, smell, hear and see the semblance of normalcy all around us. Finally touch someone. Smell the restaurant food. Hear the...
Oct 4, 2021
COVID -19 UPDATE: LANDLORDS - HELP SMALL BUSINESS WITH GOVERNMENT RENT RELIEF!
Dear Client and Friend, I hope you all had a wonderful Canada Day. On Canada Day the government extended the CECRA (Canada Emergency...
Sep 16, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE – IT’S TIME TO OPEN UP
Dear Client and Friend, For those of you who like numbers, remember from your school days that if the denominator of a fraction gets...
Jul 30, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE – IN THE SPIRIT OF TRUST
Dear Client and Friend, I’ve been listening to speakers such as Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on the Munk...
Apr 19, 2020
COVID-19 - LEAN ON ME
Dear Client and Friend, ‘Lean On Me’ and ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ are tunes my family grew up with. Bill Withers passed away this week, may...
Apr 7, 2020
COVID-19 - IMPORTANT DETAILS FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
Dear Client and Friend, On Friday, March 27, 2020, the federal government announced additional economic assistance in response to...
Apr 1, 2020
COVID-19 - LATEST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UPDATE
Dear Client and Friend, Yesterday the federal government introduced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), which replaces the...
Mar 29, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE
I hope you are all making lemonade out of lemons, and doing your part in “physical distancing”, which I prefer to use instead of “social...
Mar 26, 2020
DO YOU NEED PROBATE?
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” ― Benjamin Franklin I have always said that an educated client is my best...
Mar 9, 2020
INCOME TAX UPDATE 2019 – POST ELECTION
More on the Federal Budget 2019 Easier Access to Scientific Research & Experimental Development Program (SRED) Canadian controlled...
Nov 5, 2019
MORNEAU’S CHRISTMAS MINI-BUDGET – WRAPPED WITH GOOD GOVERNMENT AND TAX BREAKS
December 13, 2018 – Small Business Needs On November 21st Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled the 2018 Fall Economic Statement....
Oct 27, 2019
2016 TAX SEASON UPDATE #2
April 8, 2017 – Personal Income Tax How much do we each pay for our health care in Ontario? Health care has been in the news lately...
Oct 27, 2019
THE TAX BENEFITS OF TAKING CARE OF OUR ELDERLY
December 13, 2018 – Personal Income Tax The benefits of taking care of our elderly are indeed reciprocating, both for the caregiver and...
Oct 27, 2019
FILING YOUR TAXES FOR 2013, WHAT’S NEW?
March 13, 2014 – Personal income Tax Safety deposit box payments made after March 20, 2013 are no longer deductible. Adoption expense tax...
Oct 27, 2019
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