MASTER Your Philanthropy – How to Maximize Your Strategic Giving

You don't have to be a millionaire to be a philanthropist. People can give substantial sums through insurance or other financial structures if something is really important to them. This book is a must read for anyone who is thinking about developing a strategic plan for their philanthropy and for the financial advisors who support these individuals.

$24.95

MASTER Your Investment in the Family Business – How to Increase After-Tax Wealth

Family business owners typically have most of their net worth tied up in their business. Finding solutions to properly structure the business to allow it to flourish while allowing owners and their families to plan for their future can be difficult, especially if there is little time to explore strategies. This book will outline the options available to the family to ensure they know how to protect one of their most valuable assets.

$24.95

Make Sure It's Deductible - Fourth Edition

You Earned It, Now Keep It! Maximize Your Profits By Getting the Most Out of Every Tax Deduction. No matter what kind of small business you have, you owe it to yourself to take advantage of every legitimate business deduction and personal tax planning benefit at tax time.

In the Fourth Edition of Make Sure It’s Deductible, one of Canada’s most prolific authors, Knowledge Bureau President Evelyn Jacks provides the vital, practical information you need to increase your bottom line and run a tax-efficient and audit-proof small business.

The 4th Edition features a "help yourself" chapter summation and includes a handy "need to know" and "need to ask" guide to powerful, tax efficient decision making all year long.

$22.95

Essential Tax Facts: 2010 Edition

$24.95

MASTER Your Taxes – How to maximize your after-tax returns

Anyone who wants to understand the tax implications of life choices and beat the fear of the unknown—a large and unexpected tax bill.

Mastering your taxes involves two pain points: time and money! No one has a lot of time, yet that is what it appears to take to figure it out or understand it; worse it seems to need expensive professional advice to get it right. This book will help you sooth that pain by showing you simple principles to save time and money on your largest lifetime expense—taxes.

$24.95

Essential Tax Facts: 2009 Edition

Ace Your 2008 Tax Return. Then, Plan to Create and Preserve More Real Wealth.

What’s New in Tax? Plenty! Find out more about using new tax exempt investments in your portfolio, phased-in retirement options and plenty of newly increased tax deductions and credits to help you generate more cash flow every month, with this easy-to-read guide to tax savings from Evelyn Jacks, Canada’s most trusted, best-selling tax author.

Whether you are attempting to complete your own tax return, want to ask better questions of your tax practitioner or need a handy reference to recent tax changes in your role as a professional tax and financial advisor, this is the right tax guide for you.

In her trademark, easy to read and learn style, Evelyn Jacks shows you how to get more from the tax system and pay less tax. Whether you are filing as an individual or in a family unit, or reporting income from employment, investments or as a result of selling your assets, this book will help you take control of your after-tax wealth by reducing your tax burden now and for the future.

$24.95

Essential Tax Facts: 2008 Edition

Learn All About Tax Efficiency! Essential Tax Facts 2008 is a handy companion to preparing your tax return and planning to save money on tax-efficient investment decisions all year long. Perfect to anyone new to the Canadian tax system or those who want to understand concepts and strategies, this book features over 200 easy-to-read tax tips for Canadian families, singles, seniors, investors, and more, starting with a comprehensive chapter to help Canadians understand the dozens of tax changes for the current year and how to ask better questions of their tax advisors, too.

Canada’s most trusted tax author, and Knowledge Bureau President and Distinguished Faculty Member Evelyn Jacks explains all the implications to taxpayers and their advisors with her 40th book — now reprinted and updated for the February 26, 2008 Federal Budget — the most current tax guide available!

$22.95

Essential Tax Facts: 2007 Edition

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT YEAR OF PERSONAL TAX CHANGE SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY?

Essential Tax Facts is Your Vital Companion This Tax Season, which features over 30 new tax changes including:

• The New Canada Employment Credit For Work-Related Expenses
• The Tax Credit For Public Transit Passes
• Tax breaks for investors with dividends
• Tax breaks for tradespeople who buy their own tools to work
• Tax free capital gains for publicly-listed securities donated to charities
• New Basic Personal Amounts for every taxpayer
• Planning opportunities with the Universal Child Care Benefit
• Enhanced Child Disability Benefits
• New Textbook Tax Credit for post-secondary students
• Tax free income status for scholarships, fellowships or bursaries
• Doubled Pension Income Credits for seniors
• New RRSP contribution maximums
• The new $1000 Refundable Medical Expense Supplement
• New tax free capital gains provisions for fishers

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$20.00

Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It

Quarterbacking an internal or external advisory team? Learn how to build dream teams!

People Problems? Are inefficiencies, lack of productivity, issues of entitlement, failure to meet plans or other undesirable people problems rife in your office?

Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It! by Jean Blacklock and Knowledge Bureau President and Distinguished Faculty Member Evelyn Jacks can help you become a better role model, develop the right strategies and processes, and choose the right people to get the right results you need to succeed.

$31.95

Essential Tax Facts: 2006 Edition

Did you know that the biggest expense in your lifetime will be your tax bill?

For most people the taxes they pay throughout their lifetime is more than their mortgage, cars or kids’ education. Most Canadians go to work every day for almost half the year just to pay their taxes! You really don’t start working for yourself until sometime in the late spring, depending on where you live in Canada.

Further, the decisions you make about how and where you work and invest, the resulting amount of taxes you pay, income you keep and capital assets you accumulate, will be most greatly influenced over the long run by your knowledge of tax reducing strategies.

In short, it’s not just about filing a tax return on time, it’s about taking control of how much tax you pay throughout your lifetime, and making sure you pay only the correct amount and not one cent more!

In this, her 36th trade publication on personal income taxation, Evelyn Jacks shares essential tax tips to unlock the secrets to tax filing and tax planning success for the whole family.. .essential reading for tax season and all year long.

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$20.00

MASTER Your Retirement – How to fulfill your dreams with peace of mind

This is a book for people who want to gain peace of mind in planning their financial affairs for a stress-free retirement. Whether you are looking to set up the right plans at the start of your career, planning to transition out of the workforce into retirement, wishing to better manage your money in the early years of retirement or looking for advice in your later years, this is the book for you.

$24.95

MASTER Your Real Wealth – How to live your life in financial security

Do You Fear You Will Outlive Your Savings? Do You Want Better Results from Your Investments? Then Now’s The Right Time to Master Your Real Wealth!

To achieve peace of mind, today’s investor needs to make sharp decisions about scarce financial resources. This book will help bring understanding and process to building and managing your savings, so that you can focus on accumulating real wealth for the future

$24.95

Guide to Cottage Succession Planning

This comprehensive binder written by John Poyser and Evelyn Jacks is a tool to help families actually find solutions to the cottage succession challenge and help you transition your memories with your cottage . . . intact and conflict free!

Every family is different. To find the right solution for your family, you need some basic knowledge as to how cottage succession planning works. You also need to make a series of decisions and then, weighing out the pros and cons, pick the solution that best suits your needs and wishes. This binder will guide you and your family through that process.

Find solutions for these issues:

• Should the cottage be in joint names?
• Give it to the kids now? Leave it to the kids in the will?
• How much tax will we have to pay?
• I live in one province – cottage is in another – how do I get answers?
• How do we deal with the one child who lives in Britain? Or Vancouver?
• How can we make sure each child is treated equally?

$69.99

MASTER Your Money Management – How to manage the advisors who work for you

Making financial decisions is more complicated and difficult than ever today. So is finding a great professional to help. Financial advisors of all stripes are vying for your business: who is the right one for you? This book cuts through the propaganda to provide a clear and simple path to making the most of the professional advice you are paying for.

$24.95

January 2010 Line By Line Tax Update Journal

The information available in The Knowledge Bureau's Line by Line T1 Tax Update Workbook is a compilation of information contained in the January 27, 2009 Federal Budget and other recent legislation. Maintain your competitive advantage by keeping abreast of all the changes affecting the 2009 T1. Understand the most recent changes in new tax forms and schedules, including the theory behind the changes, and refresh your memory on "dark horses" and "tax trivia"—two popular features of this workbook material.

$149.00