Seniors Targeted? The Tax Audits Begin

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) routinely reviews or audits tax filings, including personal, trust, corporate, and HST returns. The most common types of reviews that focus on personal tax returns include, but are not limited to, Pre-Assessment Reviews, Processing Reviews, and the Matching Program. This year there is a new focus: the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit introduced to help families better care for their elders. But claiming it, like other tax benefits, comes with a tax snare. Read on to learn more.

Siegfried Merten earned his MFA Designation in 2008 and has remained active with Knowledge Bureau as faculty member and Distinguished Advisor Conference attendee. We are pleased to have Siegfried as one of our distinguished grads.

Doug Nelson is author of the newly released Master Your Retirement and shares these wisdoms for retirement income planning. 

Previously undeducted resource allowances carried forward may have to be reduced under the debt forgiveness rules.

Knowledge Bureau's authors have been well represented across the media this past week – television, radio, print, and live events.

Kevin Gebert, author of Financial Fotographs, shares a brief excerpt from his chapter entitled “Just Coffee”.

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