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July 2025 Poll
Do you believe Canada’s tax system based, on self-assessment, has suffered under recent changes at CRA and by Finance Canada? If so, what is the one wish you have for tax reform?
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Planning Required: New Canada Child Benefits Arrive July 20
The refundable tax credits replacing the Family Tax Cut, Universal Child Care Benefit arrive this week. What to expect? Tax and financial advisors could be very busy tending to questions about the whether the size of the cheques is right, and filing 2015 tax returns for delinquent filers.
Tax Cheating on Real Estate scores $14 Million for CRA
Leaked documents from CRA have been reported in China, indicating that 50 tax auditors and 35 additional staff have been deployed to crackdown on real estate tax cheats in Vancouver. CRA confirmed to the CBC that indeed 339 audits have reaped $14 million in tax recoveries in 2015/2016. Here’s how to stay out of trouble.
Financial Capability is Multi-Dimensional; so is Financial Advice
A just-released synopsis of the FINRA National Financial Capabilities survey of close to 30,000 Americans from June to October 2015 showed a stunning lack of financial understanding there; at a time when wealth and income inequality is at an extreme not seen since World War II. But Canadians did not do much better.
Bitcoins and CRA
It’s been a month of turmoil in France, Turkey, the US and even Brazil. In such times people consider alternative investments, such as gold (traditionally) and bitcoins (non-traditionally), as safe havens.
