Finance Canada Drops Draft Legislation August 15

All professional tax practitioners, financial advisors should take note of an important mid-summer release of draft legislation to implement some of the proposals from the November 2024 Fall Economic Statement, the April 2024 Budget, the EIFEL rules announced on August 12, 2024, and rules relating to passive income of foreign affiliates announced in the 2022 federal budget.  This draft legislation also introduces more modifications to new trust filing requirements. Brief highlights appear below;  technical details will be discussed in the September 17 and November 5 CE Summits and Knowledge Bureau’s certificate course on T3 Filings. 

The new T1 return includes a space to send the taxpayer’s email address to CRA.

Recently, the Tax Court of Canada (TCC) levied interest and gross negligence penalties against five taxpayers who were shareholders and operators of a family restaurant.

This is a continuation from last week's article, "Are You Planning Retirement for your Clients?"

Are you spending enough time consulting with your clients who are unincorporated Farmers and Fishers? 

Port Elgin, Ontario’s Marlene Donaldson recently completed the T1 Professional Tax Preparation course with Knowledge Bureau in order to better understand tax changes for the current income tax year as well as to update her skills to better prepare for the upcoming season.

We have all heard people say they would rather be at work than take a holiday.