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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?
Accountants Must Get Source Deductions Right
Payroll must be right and it must be on time for two reasons: to keep your employees and to keep out of expensive and time-consuming audits from CRA. That’s way it can be a sound investment for any small business to insist on professional certification in advanced payroll management.
People in the News
"Shortly after completing my DFA designation program, I was approached by a Turbo Tax recruiter to apply as a remote tax advisor. After completing their application process of a written exam and phone interviews I was offered the position over the other 700 plus applicants." Liam Pollard, MFA™, DFA - Tax Services Specialist™, Saskatchewan
Life Purpose
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
TFSA Contribution Limit for 2017
The annual TFSA contribution room is indexed to the consumer price index (CPI), but the contribution limit is increased only in increments of $500.
Capital Gains Exemption on Small Business Shares Increases
Indexation has increased the capital gains exemption available on the sale of qualified small business shares in 2017 by an additional $11,540, to $835,716. The capital gains exemption on the sale of qualified farm or fishing property remains at $1,000,000.
