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A thorough analysis of today’s financial news—delivered weekly to your inbox or via social media. As part of Knowledge Bureau’s interactive network, the Report covers current issues on the tax and financial services landscape and provides a wide range of professional benefits, including access to peer-to-peer blogs, opinion polls, online lessons, and vital industry information from Canada’s only multi-disciplinary financial educator.
May 2025 Poll
Does the new government’s promise, expected soon, to cut the lowest personal income tax rate by 1% to 14%, go far enough to help Canadians impacted by high costs? What are alternatives in your view?
The Delusionary Testator
It is not uncommon for elderly people to form delusionary beliefs about those who should rightfully be named in their will.
Estate Planning: Testamentary Capacity
In order to make a valid will in any province in Canada, the testator (or will maker) must have a sound dispositive mind or testamentary capacity.
Case Study: Planning the Sales of Home and Cottage
Is the gain tax exempt? Solve this case study: Phil and Sylvia have owned their home in the city for 20 years and their cottage at the lake for 10 years in that 20-year period...
School Planning: Tuition, Education, Textbook Amounts
The start of the school year is only a short month away, and now is a great time to think about the tax benefits of post-secondary studies in order to be organized come year-end.
Estate Planning: Wills Variation – Is It Right to Change a Will?
You live your entire life working and accumulating wealth, and are able to do whatever you like with it during your lifetime – spend, invest it, grow it, preserve it or give it away.
