Help & Contact: 1 866 953 4769
Financial Issues & Answers for Everyone
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?
Before You Leave Tax Season: Check out the New CPP Costs for 2019
If you’re a pre-retiree, don’t put your tax affairs to bed yet—especially if you plan to apply for CPP benefits in the near future! Starting January 1, 2019, there will be many changes to the rules. Here’s what you need to know.
Canada’s Competitiveness: Managing Cross-Border Taxation
Canada’s workplace is changing and not just on our vast, thawing land. Home-based workers are able to earn their living around the globe, and despite uncertainty, the benefits offered by recent U.S. tax reforms are attractive to Canadian businesses and professionals seeking more competitive environments. For these reasons, May 15 is an important date.
Leadership Discussion: What’s Your Stance on Legalized Workplace Cannabis Use?
Cannabis is already on the mind of tax and financial advisors due to its inclusion in Budget 2018 and its pending legalization and accompanying taxation. But that isn’t all you should be thinking about, as it triggers an essential and controversial leadership discussion – what’s tolerable in the workplace?
Travel for Medical Care? Claim Your Deductions
Do you have clients who travelled to another city for medical care in 2017, but failed to keep receipts? It pays to do a little research to maximize their claims. In fact, they don’t need to miss out on the medical expense savings, if you use the simplified method to file. Here are the rules:
Found Money: How Filing an Accurate T1 Pays Off
For many Canadians filing a tax return is the most important financial transaction of the year. Getting the best tax refund is important: not only will it put more of the money you previously earned back in your own pocket, your refund can make at least some of your cash flow and retirement worries go away. Here’s how:
