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.
You may have heard the saying “the harder I work, the luckier I get.” When it comes to tax, bookkeeping and financial advisory services, it can also be said that the more education you have, the better the advice you’ll give to the benefit of your lucky clients. For these reasons, we offer you twin “pots of educational gold” on this St. Patrick’s Day.
Busy small business owners in your community are in desperate need of reliable and highly-qualified bookkeeping services to interpret the documentation and assemble it so that they can make smart tax-efficient decisions that focus on the future financial health of the business. Get new skills to enter this in-demand field, or further enhance your existing credentials with important training opportunities from Knowledge Bureau, now available online.
Did you know that Knowledge Bureau is a private, educational institution certified by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to provide courses that develop or improve skills for those working in the tax, bookkeeping, accounting, and financial services industries? What this also means is that Knowledge Bureau students who have paid 2020 tuition fees in excess of $100 qualify for the tuition fee amount, and the T2202 tax slips to claim this are now available in your Virtual Campus.
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” Max DePree, Chairman Emeritus of Herman Miller Inc. I love this quote because it sets out a challenge for leaders. In an era of mistrust and “fake news” the responsibility of a leader is to demonstrate and define what is real and what is not, so that the organization, community or family can make sound decisions about the future.
March 8 is International Women’s Day and one of the many things to celebrate is that women are becoming far more financially active. This is a positive trend which enables better conversations about tax, retirement and estate planning, But advisors who fail to engage women, may well find themselves failing.
Is March your lucky month? Traditionally, leprechauns celebrate pots of gold at the end of rainbows this month. But, it was Buddha who really put the concept of luck into perspective, “Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.” That strategy has better odds of success, too. That’s why we are offering you some of each: the opportunity to be more skilled and a bit of the pot of gold.