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Friday News Roundup 20.10.23: WFH despair, Carney climate, Thomas KPMG, MNP Moncton and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

RSM: Economic headwinds despite V-shaped Canadian recovery

The ongoing pandemic and US presidential candidates pose problems for Canada
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.10.16: Jersey (off)Shore, Tax Court & CJC, MNP and much more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Practice

Canadian audit fees jump as public filings plunge for 2019

Audit Analytics crunches the SEDAR numbers for Canadian audit fees in 2019
Business

Canadians will pay the bill for COVID-19 in higher taxes — here’s how it will likely happen

Gordon Pape on eight potential Canadian tax increases post-pandemic
Practice

Hansen v The Queen: The principle residence exemption and house flipping

Tax lawyer and accountant David Rotfleisch looks at a recent Tax Court ruling involving a CRA charge of gross negligence
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.10.02: ex-MP faces tax evasion charges, Taxpayers Ombudsperson and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

WE Charity demise shows why trust, transparency are so critical for NGOs

Most NGOs fund their operations from taxpayer dollars, says accounting doctoral candidate Nelson Duenas
Thought Leaders

Free trade 2.0: How USMCA does a better job than NAFTA of protecting the environment

USMCA introduces Article 24.8 that allows Canadian environmental standards to take precedence
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.25: Leafs losses, Ex-CPA jailed, tax judge named, snow washing and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Practice

Rogers Enterprises (2015) Inc. v The Queen

Beware the tax trap of GAAR, says tax lawyer and accountant David Rotfleisch
Business

Focus on today and tomorrow to help Canada’s economic recovery: CPA Canada

CPA Canada applauds Throne Speech's staged approach to economic recovery
Business

Canadian accountants lack economic optimism, reports CPA Canada Business Monitor

But CPAs in senior leadership positions show surprising business optimism
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.18: Tax Court complaints, audit quality, ZBB and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Practice

Here comes the CEWS audits

Practitioners are now seeing the first CRA "small-scale" CEWS audits say Kenneth Keung and Kim G C Moody of Moodys Tax
Practice

Changes to the Canadian principal residence exemption – part two

Kim G C Moody provides an update to the principal residence exemption conversation
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.11: Hotel New CFE, CRA shocks woman, and sustainable stuff

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

What will be the impact of the WE Charity scandal on the Canadian charity sector?

A longform article by charity sector lawyer Mark Blumberg on the We Charity, its governance and for-profit activities
Thought Leaders

The throne speech must blaze a bold new path — including imposing a wealth tax

The pandemic has laid bare the consequences of a gilded age of tax avoidance
Practice

Changes coming to the Canadian principal residence exemption?

The time for change might be ripe says Kim G C Moody of Moodys Tax Law LLP
Practice

Reconsidering Consideration – TCC concludes funding attracts HST in CanLII v The Queen

Bobby Solhi and Braek Urquhart of BLG on the CanLII sales tax implications for non-profit organizations
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.08.28: Chinese audit opacity, Sage practice report, ex-CPA fraud

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Practice

Planning to Maximize the Capital Dividend Account — Part III

The third and final part of a three-part series, "Tax Planning for the Non-Specialist Advisor: Unlocking Liquidity in Corporate Capital Losses," by Michael Goldberg of Minden Gross LLP
Practice

Are tax free savings account swap transactions legitimate?

In Louie v Canada, a Canada Revenue Agency cross-appeal was allowed
Practice

R. v. Scholz — A Canadian tax lawyer analysis of document forging and tax fraud

David Rotfleisch provides analysis of falsely claiming GST/HST rebates