Changes are coming to the Income Tax Act and both you and your clients will all be affected with new tax risks including longer tax audits. Bill C-31, which passed second reading in the House of Commons on June 3 and is now at committee stage, contains elements of previous Federal Budgets that will expand the CRA’s compliance and enforcement powers. Here’s what you need to know and pass along to your clients:
It’s reasonably common knowledge that higher wealth accumulators in Canada will want to do some extra planning to avoid the 33% high federal income tax rate applicable to the terminal return of the last surviving spouse.