Confirmed:  The CCR for Small Business is Tax Free

Ottawa has confirmed that the CCR for Small Business received by eligible Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs) will be tax free for the 2019-20 to 2023-24 fuel charge years, as will the final payment for the 2024-2025 fuel charge year.  Draft legislation was released on June 30, 2025 with this announcement; and will be introduced for law making in Parliament this Fall.   Some of the more significant details are discussed below.

The average tax refund in Canada is now over $1620 – and that means millions of dollars of overpaid taxes are being taken out of the hands of average people all year long. At particular risk are employees. 

Siegfried Merten earned his MFA Designation in 2008 and has remained active with Knowledge Bureau as faculty member and Distinguished Advisor Conference attendee. We are pleased to have Siegfried as one of our distinguished grads.

Doug Nelson is author of the newly released Master Your Retirement and shares these wisdoms for retirement income planning. 

Previously undeducted resource allowances carried forward may have to be reduced under the debt forgiveness rules.

Knowledge Bureau's authors have been well represented across the media this past week – television, radio, print, and live events.

Kevin Gebert, author of Financial Fotographs, shares a brief excerpt from his chapter entitled “Just Coffee”.