The CRA TSlip Saga: An Update

This tax season has been particularly challenging for both taxpayers and tax professionals. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) provides tax information slips—such as T3, T4, T5, and their variations—through secure online portals: My Account and Represent a Client (RAC). This year, there were lots of problems with these portals, and now, it appears, CRA is not being quite transparent about when the slips were actually visible to clients and that doesn’t seem fair. Here’s an update on where we stand now.

What’s the biggest difference between a co-borrower and a cosigner? It relates to the degree of investment in the loan. Here are the details:

In the last federal budget, the government proposed to allow Canadian Controlled Private Corporations to claim 100% CCA in the year of acquisition for assets purchased after April 18, 2021, to a maximum of $1,500,000.  However, legislation has yet to be introduced to implement that change.  That’s turning out to be a big problem for tax advisors and their clients.  Here’s why:

Most people know that when you miss filing a tax return your family will miss out on receiving the Canada Child Benefit.  However, did you know that you can retroactively claim the CCB by filing those missed returns?  How far back you can go, however, depends on what type of CCB you file for. 

Small businesses are critical to the health of the Canadian economy.  According to a recent study by the Government of Canada, small businesses (1-99 employees as defined by the Government) represented 97.9% of all enterprises in Canada. According to the same study, these businesses employed 8.4 million individuals in 2019 or 68.8% of the private labour force. In addition, small business contributed 41.9% to the Gross Domestic Product generated by the private sector in 2016.  Now that we are in past-pandemic mode, understanding the needs of small businesses will pay off in better tax and financial planning solutions. 

You may ask yourself, what is the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance?

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