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This Week’s Edition of KBR:

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: 3 votes
33.33%
No: 6 votes
66.67%
 

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Is a Loss on My Personal Residence Deductible?

What are the tax consequences when you sell your home, a personal use property, for a loss or make a bundle on grandma’s antique silver goblets, a listed personal use property? Here are the rules.

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Why Tax Pros Are Worth Their Salt – Part II

A follow-up on excellence at CRA. MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist, Alan Rowell, reporting.

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Hear Their Stories: More Than Pretty Darn Good

If you haven’t yet read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, we highly recommend it. In it you’ll learn about the magic number for greatness: 10,000 hours of hard practice.

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Who Is An Employee?

When it comes to tax preparation, it’s important to clearly understand the definition of employed vs. self-employed.

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Back to School: Should Costs of Developing Promising Young Athletes Be Deductible?

It’s back to school time and as every parent knows, arts and athletics are expensive activities for children to partake in at this time of the year. 

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