When CRA officially opened the electronic floodgates on tax filing season on February 23 this year, it was with a number of pieces of news. Did you know, for example, that the GST/HST Credit has now been officially renamed the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (CGEB)? You get it by filing a tax return and interacting with CRA’s new digital services, which unfortunately still refer to the old name – the GST/HST Credit. It’s just one of those “game changers” that make Real Tax News with Evelyn Jacks and Friends, starting this week for its second season, so valuable to Canadians.
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Trusts are used on an ever-increasing basis to plan for wealth and succession objectives for medium- and high-worth clients. The advisor who can assist with that process enjoys the oppor-tunity to establish a long-term, potentially intergenerational connection with a client and their family. However, there have been recent changes advisors need to know about.
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