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When you can’t meet your tax obligations – the CRA’s Taxpayer Relief Program (June 2017)
In recent years, it seems that the arrival of spring has coincided with a natural or man-made disaster somewhere in Canada. Spring is also, of course, tax return preparation and filing season for most...

New rules for financing post-secondary education (June 2017)
For many years, post-secondary students have financed their educations in part through private savings and often in part through government student loans, which are generally interest-free while the s...

Claiming a deduction for moving expenses (June 2017)
If spring is the season for real estate sales in Canada, then summer is the time when all those real estate buyers and sellers pack up their belongings and move to their newly purchased homes. And, wh...

What happens after you file that tax return (June 2017)
Once they’ve completed and filed their 2016 tax return, most Canadians give a sigh of relief that the dreaded annual chore is done, and that income taxes will be out of sight and out of mind unt...

New Quarterly Newsletters (May 2017)
Two quarterly newsletters have been added—one dealing with personal issues, and one dealing with corporate issues....

Understanding the OAS “recovery tax” (May 2017)
Older taxpayers who have recently completed and filed their tax returns for 2016 may face an unpleasant surprise when that return is assessed. The unpleasant surprise may come in the form of a notific...

Making use of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Voluntary Disclosure Program (May 2017)
As just about everyone knows, individual income tax returns for the 2016 tax year must be filed, by most Canadians, and any tax balance owed must be paid by all individual Canadians, on or before May ...

Personal tax credits that will disappear in 2017 (May 2017)
The Canadian tax system is in a constant state of change and evolution, as new measures are introduced and existing ones are “tweaked” through a never-ending series of budgetary and other ...

Fixing a mistake on your (already-filed) tax return (May 2017)
For the majority of Canadians, the due date for filing of an individual tax return for the 2016 tax year is May 1, 2017. (Self-employed Canadians and their spouses have until June 15, 2017 to get that...

Budget tax changes affecting caregivers (April 2017)
Many Canadians are called upon to act as a caregiver for a family member who either cannot live independently or who requires varying degrees of assistance in order to be able to continue to live on t...

Upcoming changes to the Canada Pension Plan (April 2017)
The Canada Pension Plan (CPP), together with the Old Age Security (OAS) program, forms the cornerstone of Canada’s retirement income system. There are other retirement savings options available ...

How to avoid getting caught by a tax scam (July 2016)
For most of the year, taxpayers live quite happily without any contact with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). During and just following tax filing season, however, such contact is routine – tax r...

Newsletters

Tax season if over (finally) except for those stragglers who are always late. The worst (best?) I've had to handle is eight years of personal and corporate catch-up.

Thank you to all of you that made referrals this year. That is still is my most effective method of growth.

The next couple of months are going to be spent catching up on our corporate work that got set aside for personal taxes.

If there is anything we can do for you, please give us a call.

R Brenton Driscoll, CPA, CA

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