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Mark Your Calendar: Critical Deadlines for May and June

Tax season never truly ends, it seems, as there are many more upcoming tax filing, investment planning and education milestones to discuss with your clients over the next six months. Check out our handy checklist below and then test yourself – what are the conversation openers you’ll use and with which clients? It’s your opportunity to shine with every member of the household:

Featured Speaker: Join Knowledge Bureau Team at Radius Retirement Conference

Come out to meet Director of Operations, Al Gordon and Knowledge Bureau faculty member, Alan Rowell, MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist, who will be speaking on Real Wealth Management™ – Tax Efficient Retirement Income Layering at the RRC on April 3.

Budget Tax Changes Hit Business Activities Broadly

The March 21, 2013 budget was a significant document, which upon reflection, will require high net worth clients, particularly business owners, and their advisors to rethink wealth, retirement  and estate plans. 

It’s Curtains for Tax Cheats

Offshore Tax Cheats: the Finance Department wants You! The CRA will be empowered to pay you a “finder’s fee” for identifying international tax cheats as a result of new provisions in the March 21, 2013 budget. Further, businesses using “zapper” software to evade taxes by hiding or “suppressing” sales income will face stiff new penalties and criminal convictions – with fines in the 7 figures.

Evelyn Jacks: Report Your Foreign Holdings

Canadians with foreign holdings at any time in 2013 (not just at the end of the year), will need to provide more information to the CRA, starting with the 2013 tax year.

Featured Tool: EverGreen Explanatory Notes

Updated with details from Budget 2013, EverGreen is your ever-current online resource for answers to tax questions about personal and corporate tax, and the GST. Be more efficient this tax season with the most current information you need just a few clicks away. View the free demo today!

Featured Event: Audit Defense & Financial Educator Training

Learn the tools you need to defend your clients professionally in an e-Tax Audit. Join us in a city near you this May!
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Do you agree that public trustees, guardians and departments supporting Indigenous Services should be able to certify impairments for the Disability Tax Credit?

  • Yes
    13 votes
    17.57%
  • No
    61 votes
    82.43%