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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:

MASTER Your Investment in the Family Business

Are you working with the owner or a member of a family business? Are you wondering how you can best advise the family on how to use the business opportunity to provide for retirement income? Learn how to protect one of your client’s most valuable assets with MASTER Your Investment in the Family Business. . .a great take-away from your next “lunch and learn” client seminar!

Back to School: Debt and Cash Flow Management

Many families “blow the budget” at “back to school time”, pressured by sons and daughters for elite sports camps, music lessons, sports equipment and uniforms, the latest trends in shoes and clothing, and school supplies of every sort. Help your back-to-school clients prepare for a more responsible future—and some important financial literacy with their children—by helping to set realistic expectations and identifying actions to manage debt and stay on track with financial goals. We’ll even help your learning budgets: Enrol in Debt and Cash Flow Management by August 20 and save $200.

Larry Frostiak at the Knowledge Bureau Corporate Tax & Year-End Planning Bootcamp

Attendees to this year’s Corporate Tax & Year-End Planning Bootcamp, hosted by Knowledge Bureau, will provide attendees with the background they need to plan and prepare T2 returns for small businesses. Knowledge Bureau is proud to introduce its featured instructor, Larry H. Frostiak, FCA, CFP, TEP.

Investment Income Planning

The Investment Income Calculator provides a step-by-step method for planning investment income for a single client or a couple over a four-year period. The calculator deals with TFSAs, registered investments (including RPPs, RRSPs, RESPs, and DPSPs) as well as non-registered investments.

Give the Gift of Financial Literacy

The Money Matters: Financial Lessons for Life 2014 calendars are full of timely and relevant money matter tips and make wonderful client gifts. Ensure your calendars with a pre-order – the 2013 calendar sold out! English and French calendars available. Order by August 15.

Character Conversion Transactions Get a Reprieve

The federal government gave character conversion transactions a mid-summer reprieve on July 11, making the transition process somewhat easier for companies that use derivative forward agreements to change the character of income transactions to capital transactions.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Do you agree that public trustees, guardians and departments supporting Indigenous Services should be able to certify impairments for the Disability Tax Credit?

  • Yes
    13 votes
    17.81%
  • No
    60 votes
    82.19%