Draft Legislation Released July 23, 2026

While Canadians were enjoying the height of summer 2026, Finance Canada released draft legislation for a number of previously announced tax measures including new rules for the disabled, apprentices in the trades, those with automobile benefits, farmers on the prairies and business owners buying assets or remitting GST/HST. A consultation has been issued on the proposed new rules, which must be emailed to the department by September 4.  There are some important changes, some summarized below, which will also be covered in the September 23 CE Summit.

People with presence seem to navigate a room with ease, stopping to talk with others for just the right amount of time before moving on. 

With the new Final Returns on Death of a Taxpayer course slated for an April 2015 release, Wayne Blackmere sent his comments regarding the course.

It’s going to be one of those tax years – lots of complicated tax changes plus lots of reasons for taxpayers to want their tax refunds early. 

There are many ways to compute a tax return mathematically correctly. 

In a recent decision from the Supreme Court of British Columbia, it was held that the former common-law partner of a deceased individual was entitled to the pension benefits of his plan because the deceased never changed the beneficiary designation.

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