Mark Your Calendar: Critical Deadlines for May and June

Tax season never truly ends, it seems, as there are many more upcoming tax filing, investment planning and education milestones to discuss with your clients over the next six months. Check out our handy checklist below and then test yourself – what are the conversation openers you’ll use and with which clients? It’s your opportunity to shine with every member of the household:

A Knowledge Bureau opinion poll on wealth and wealth inequality has touched a nerve.

Birth, marriage, death, separation or divorce, university entrance, sale of business, unemployment, illness, career change, self-employment, inheritances, even certain birthdays — all of these life events can have tax consequences.

Family business succession is the topic at the November Distinguished Advisor Workshop – and it’s an important one – as by the end of this decade it is estimated that over 350,000 business owners will be over the age of 55, and within ten years over half a million business owners will exit their businesses, according to a report in 2013 by CIBC World Markets.  

Very few people have any training to help them be the best Powers of Attorney of they can be. Now advisors and their clients can learn how in a half day session hosted by top lawyers in this field.

SURREY, BC. Knowledge Bureau, a national financial educator and Kwantlen Polytechnic University have partnered to offer essential business skills to new and graduate students in the lower mainland of BC this fall.

Regulatory burdens for businesses are becoming less taxing in Canada, according to a 2014 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which analyzed the ease of paying taxes in 189 countries.