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Is the new Canada Groceries and Essential Benefit the right solution to help Canadians with inflation?

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Come out to meet Director of Operations, Al Gordon and Knowledge Bureau faculty member, Alan Rowell, MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist, who will be speaking on Real Wealth Management™ – Tax Efficient Retirement Income Layering at the RRC on April 3.

The March 21, 2013 budget was a significant document, which upon reflection, will require high net worth clients, particularly business owners, and their advisors to rethink wealth, retirement  and estate plans. 

Offshore Tax Cheats: the Finance Department wants You! The CRA will be empowered to pay you a “finder’s fee” for identifying international tax cheats as a result of new provisions in the March 21, 2013 budget. Further, businesses using “zapper” software to evade taxes by hiding or “suppressing” sales income will face stiff new penalties and criminal convictions – with fines in the 7 figures.

Canadians with foreign holdings at any time in 2013 (not just at the end of the year), will need to provide more information to the CRA, starting with the 2013 tax year.

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