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    How international athletes are taxed in Canada: Toronto Maple Leafs' captain John Tavares embroiled in tax litigation with CRA
    Tavares is a high-profile opportunity for the CRA to test the limits to the structuring of athlete salaries explains Canadian accountant and tax lawyer David J Rotfleisch
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    Case Commentary: Cassidy v Canada — Using extraordinary circumstances, CRA's delays, inability to pay, or financial hardship
    Why the Federal Court, in Cassidy v Canada, ruled that a CRA officer's decision was unreasonable, and the taxpayer received relief over unpaid taxes
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    What to do when the CRA refuses taxpayer relief
    Tax accountant and lawyer David J Rotfleisch explains how a corporate director won relief from the CRA over payroll remittance in Maverick v HMK, 2023
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    10 reasons why Canadians are still dissatisfied with the economy, despite the upswing
    Four accounting academics explain the disconnect between the pessimism of Canadians and an economy that seems headed for a soft landing
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    Sunday News Roundup 24.03.03 Mulroney legacy, PwC sole source, RPA rising, and more Canadian accounting news
    Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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    Here’s what we can learn from Canada’s response to inflation in the 1980s and 1990s
    Inflation is a tax on households, but don’t expect prices to revert to pre-pandemic levels, as interest rates could stay where they are for several more months
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    PCAOB finds fault with half of Ernst and Young Canada audits inspected
    US audit watchdog inspection report details audits with multiple deficiencies and potential non-compliance with independence rules over financial relationships
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    CPA Canada reduces operating budget with staff cuts due to accounting profession standoff
    National organization has run two deficits in the past five years, says changes needed to ensure long-term success in challenging operating environment
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    The General Anti-Avoidance Rule may be expanding: What you need to know
    Aron Grusko and Nick Noonan of Fillmore Riley LLP say recent legislative changes and Supreme Court decisions reflect an increasingly expansive view of GAAR
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    Case Commentary: Csak v The King 2024 TCC — Transfers of property while owing taxes to the CRA
    David J Rotfleisch explains why the Tax Court of Canada found the Canada Revenue Agency's 1988 and 1989 reassessments statue-barred
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    Taxpayer sidesteps gross-negligence penalties and $90,000 in taxable income because tax year was statute-barred
    As David J Rotfleisch explains, the decision by the Tax Court of Canada in Abbass V The King centred on a bookkeeping error by the taxpayer's accountant
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    The top Canadian accounting stories of 2023
    From greedflation to a CPA standoff, it was a year when regulators got tough with auditors and the Supreme Court of Canada issued an earth-shattering tax decision
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