Pre-Budget Consultations Now Underway!

Pre-budget consultations are now underway for this fall’s Federal Budget and Canadians are invited to share their views with Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne through an online survey. Over the next several weeks, the Finance Minister and his team will meet with various stakeholder groups and review public submissions before finalizing the budget.

CFP professionals registered with FPSC can now earn 30 CE hours towards their certification with our Tax Strategies for Financial Advisors course.

As a new FPSC-approved program, here is an excerpt from Tax Strategies for Financial Advisors.

A gift (either in cash or in kind) from your employer is an employment benefit. However, non-cash gifts and non-cash awards to an employee for the year with a total aggregate value less than $500 is non-taxable. The total value in excess of $500 annually will be taxable.

Close to 150 professional tax and financial advisors from across Canada are now certified to prepare files to defend their clients in the case of audit as a result of successfully completing the Audit Defence Distinguished Advisor Workshop recently held in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto.

10,000 boomers are turning age 65 every day in America, but are they ready to retire financially?

Canada is growing! We are now  35,056,064 strong, but there is a digital divide between young and old!