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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.
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?
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Medical Expenses: Construction and Renovation Expenses
Consider how common out of pocket medical expenses are and how many millions of people miss claiming them. We overview a few of those “dark horses” below.
Generations Building Wealth Differently
Can Canadians build wealth in the current economic environment? Over the longer term? After taxes? These are important questions anytime but particularly at election time. The traditional way to build wealth for Canadians families has been to buy a home, pay it off and even leverage the equity to borrow money to invest in the financial markets. These wealth building exercises occur over a lifetime. But today, new generations are building wealth differently.
Provincial Budget Round Up (Everybody But Ontario)!
Provincial budgets have now been tabled from every province but one: Ontario. This includes those recently delivered by Newfoundland & Labrador on April 9 and PEI on April 10. Neither province introduced tax hikes, but both placed emphasis on helping businesses in their province. Check out the details:
Tax Planning with Severance
According to a Statistics Canada report on March 31 labor market trends, job losses are starting to occur in Canada, for the first time in 26 months, with the unemployment rate ticking up to 6.7%. Some of this can be attributed to tariff uncertainty. But, amongst the 1.5 million unemployed people in Canada, 44% lost their jobs due to a layoff in the last 12 month and that means, doing a T1 return for 2024 will require specialized knowledge in reporting severance. Here’s a primer on what to know:
