A Challenge for New Clients: How to Choose a Trusted Advisor

If you’re in business for yourself, you have a unique opportunity to build wealth in an asset class that others don’t have: equity in a business enterprise that some day may be sold for millions of dollars. In addition, that business can spin off income for family members that can provide significant tax advantages, done well. Understanding how to realize on this asset requires the help of a trusted financial advisory team. Who should be on that team and how do you find them? This is a challenge your next new business clients may wrestle with. Here are some tips on how you can open discussions to help them:

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) may be stymied by the billions in unreported income flourishing in the underground economy, yet over 3000 full time staff members will soon be cut, according to information obtained by Postmedia News under access to information legislation.

In a recent decision of the Tax Court of Canada (TCC), the honourable Justice Hogan had to decide if a promise to purchase land, as well as the related deposit, constituted a single supply or multiple supplies for GST/HST purposes within the meaning of the Excise Tax Act (the ETA).

Happy New Year!  If you want to get a “jump start” on your financial fitness this year, get busy and use the current cold snap to sort tax receipts and speed up your tax refund.

Kathy Lloyd earned her MFA-Succession and Estate Planning designation with Knowledge Bureau in 2012 with honours. We are pleased to have Kathy as one of our distinguished grads.

Self-employed persons are ineligible for regular EI benefits due to lay-offs or business slow-downs. But they can now elect to receive EI benefits for the following benefits...

I am thinking of selling a website I have built. Would that be categorized as a capital gain or business income?