August 2025 Poll
A public consultation on whether the CDIC’s deposit insurance limit should be raised to $150,000 per deposit category is underway. Do you agree?CPP Revisions a Good Reason to Learn Professional Tax Efficient Retirement Income Planning
There are lots of changes coming to retirement income planning, together with a whole new focus on how much is enough. . . a question being asked by all generations in the family. That’s why retirement planning is really about multi-generational planning.
Peer-to-Peer Learning is a Most Effective Way to Excel
There are so many tax planning changes being introduced for 2016 – 2017 that tax, bookkeeping or financial services professionals may have trouble keeping up with answers to their clients’ complex questions this year.
Life Purpose
Post-Thanksgiving reminder: "To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." Buddha
Year-End Tax Tip: Donations
Charities count on our support at year end. Not only is donating to a worthy cause the right thing to do, but digging deep to help others also makes good sense from a year-end tax planning point of view, especially for young, high-income earners.
Tax Reporting Change Will Affect All Homeowners
The Distinguished Advisor Workshops soon to be running across Canada will discuss a major change in reporting or principal residence dispositions that will affect Canadians and the tax preparation broadly: all principal residence dispositions must be reported on the tax return starting in 2016.
KB Poll: Donations Credit Could Use a Tax Boost
According to last month’s Knowledge Bureau Poll, the existing charitable donations tax credit could be more generous to taxpayers. So said 75% of the respondents, who also gave suggestions for improvement of the credit. But the tax tail didn’t always wag the donation dog! Many respondents gave to charity for other reasons.
