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June 2025 Poll

Are your clients owed money by CRA? As of March 31, 2025, the CRA holds about 10.2 million uncashed cheques totalling $1.7 billion. In your view, why is this happening?
Yes: 5 votes
45.45%
No: 6 votes
54.55%
 

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Proactively Addressing Change in the Financial Services Industry

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Weather the Tax-Reform Storm of Complexity at the New CE Summits

2018 is destined to be a busy season for Canadian tax preparers and financial advisors who will need to be prepared to assist their clients in addressing the many new tax changes. This year’s CE Summits will help you gain a better understanding of the tax changes that have occurred, and those to come for private business owners and their families, and will allow you to hone the technical skills necessary to effectively address them.

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Weekly Thought Provoker: Using Robo to Help Your Business

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People in the News: Cathy Mason

Cathy Mason, of Calgary, on her experience taking the T1 Professional Tax Preparation – Intermediate course:

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Advisors Get Investors Better Returns, Global Report Finds

There are more millionaires in the world than ever, according to Capgemini’s World Wealth Report 2017, and those whose portfolios are overseen by wealth managers achieved robust gains of 24.3 per cent on average — far exceeding benchmark performance.

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