New Tax Changes for Caregivers: Alberta Budget
Alberta Finance Minister Nater Horner delivered his second consecutive deficit budget on February 26. The deficit is large at $9.4 billion, which the government attributes largely to declining oil revenues. The document is called Fiscal Plan 2026-2029 meaning that this is a three-year fiscal pan, rather than the typical one-year projection.
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Provinces Return to Bracket Creep: B.C.
Tax season is back in full force and so is the tabling of provincial budgets. Accountants and bookkeepers as well as other professionals in B.C. beware: your services are about to cost consumers more. And bracket creep is back, too! This month at the Knowledge Bureau we’ll break down each province’s tax changes to help tax and financial advisors inform their clients of the consequences – for residents and those who are moving to the provinces in question – and with deficits growing, the provincial tax news is mostly stark.
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Real Tax News: Tax Filing Season 2026 Full of Surprises
When CRA officially opened the electronic floodgates on tax filing season on February 23 this year, it was with a number of pieces of news. Did you know, for example, that the GST/HST Credit has now been officially renamed the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (CGEB)? You get it by filing a tax return and interacting with CRA’s new digital services, which unfortunately still refer to the old name – the GST/HST Credit. It’s just one of those “game changers” that make Real Tax News with Evelyn Jacks and Friends, starting this week for its second season, so valuable to Canadians.
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Scale Your Business Growth With Plans That Work on March 25
Introducing the Business Builder Summit. . .we are excited to launch a new continuing education and professional development program of special interest to independent financial advisors and tax accountants, as well as up-and-coming entrepreneurial team leaders who are striving to build a high-growth financial services practice, but may be struggling to scale it cost effectively.
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Immediate Expensing Rules: Good Tax Policy?
Over the course of the last two federal budgets (April 16, 2024 and November 4, 2025), the rules for claiming Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) have been uncertain. The proposal to extend immediate expensing rules for certain acquired assets were paused for over a year and then re-introduced in a series of four complex measures which together with new rules for Scientific Research and Experimental Development have become known as the “Productivity Super-Deduction”. A backdrop appears below. The key question: will this complexity be effective as an economic stimulator?
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