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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?

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Managing the managers in a family business: Terry Jenkins

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Stats Can revises 30 years of data on the income of Canadian Households

Statistics Canada released revised data on the income of Canadian households for 1981 though 2010.

Elimination of the HST in BC: Transitional rules for real property

  If you are in British Columbia you are probably aware that on the 31st of May 2012, the legislative assembly of BC passed Bill 54 to re-implement the provincial sales tax (PST) in the province, alongside the goods and services tax (GST), ridding the province of the much-criticized harmonized sales tax (HST).

Evelyn Jacks: Year end tip -  Manage size of net family income

Back in the early 1970s, tax reform, which largely introduced the taxation framework we still live with, considered whether the family, including dependants living in the home, should be taxed as one unit on one tax return.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

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?

  • Yes
    2 votes
    100%
  • No
    0 votes
    0%