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Seniors Targeted? The Tax Audits Begin

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) routinely reviews or audits tax filings, including personal, trust, corporate, and HST returns. The most common types of reviews that focus on personal tax returns include, but are not limited to, Pre-Assessment Reviews, Processing Reviews, and the Matching Program. This year there is a new focus: the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit introduced to help families better care for their elders. But claiming it, like other tax benefits, comes with a tax snare. Read on to learn more.

Better Late than Never Doesn’t Cut It with CRA: File on Time to Avoid Severe Penalties

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has always been serious about penalizing tax evasion, and they are sharpening their focus on investigating anyone who facilitates or encourages non-compliance.

Safest Banks: Is Canada in the Top 10?

We generally believe, living in Canada, that we have the safest banking system in the world. Certainly we’re in the top 10, right?

Top Three Tax Tips for New Entrepreneurs

When starting a small business, whether as a proprietorship or a corporation, entrepreneurs can fall into a number of tax traps. 

Rising Debt Levels: Bad News (and Good News) About Family Debt in Canada

A flurry of recent media activity has raised the red flag on how deep in the red most Canadians are, reporting that more people are carrying higher levels of debt than at any other time in history.

Did You Know…

An outcry from Hollywood means Ontario will delay tax credit cuts.

Finance Canada Releases Ways and Means Motions

The Notice of Ways and Means Motion and Explanatory Notes for the tax provisions of the April 21, 2015 Federal Budget were tabled on May 4, and contain the detail required to set up family tax and wealth planning strategies for the 2015, 2016 and future tax years as envisioned in this document.   
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Are your clients owed money by CRA? As of March 31, 2025, the CRA holds about 10.2 million uncashed cheques totalling $1.7 billion. In your view, why is this happening?

  • Yes
    18 votes
    66.67%
  • No
    9 votes
    33.33%