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Sunday News Roundup 24.07.28: Glacier Media melts CPABC regulation reputation and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Sunday News Roundup 24.07.21: Biden drops out, how accountants vote, and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Guide to Canadian tax rules on benefits arising from use of corporate assets (e.g., money, trips, boats, cars, space trips, etc.
What happens when business owners dip into their corporation's pockets to pay for personal expenses? Potentially dire consequences, says David J Rotfleisch
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Business
Feds push carbon capture projects forward with public money
Critics say taxpayers will pay the full cost of a dubious Strathcona Resources carbon capture and sequestration project funded by the Canada Growth Fund
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What does Tax Court decide? What does Federal Court decide? Supreme Court clarifies jurisdictions
Through its decisions on Dow Chemical and Iris Technologies, the Supreme Court of Canada has clarified tax appeal jurisdictions, explains David J Rotfleisch
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Churches don’t pay taxes. Should they?
Many Canadians don’t realize that religious properties are tax exempt, however, this privilege is increasingly being debated as organized religion recedes
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The ‘tax-free trap’: How a simple phrase skews Canadians’ savings choices
Canadian taxpayers may be sacrificing long-term savings for short-term investments due to heuristic language that simplifies complex decisions
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When can discovery answers of a deceased Canadian be used under subsections 100(6)-(7) of the Tax Court Of Canada rules?
Canadian accountant and tax lawyer David J Rotfleisch on a Tax Court decision involving the testimony of a taxpayer who died soon after discovery
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What is the standard of review for discretionary decisions of the CRA appealed to the federal courts?
Canadian accountant and tax litigation lawyer David J Rotfleisch takes a deep dive into the standards for judicial review of taxpayer appeals to the Federal Courts
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Sunday News Roundup 24.06.16: Capital gains narratives and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Sunday News Roundup 24.06.09: Capital gains vote, Bondfield auditors, and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Carbon Tax: Correction demanded for 'big error' in carbon price report
A recent PBO report overestimated the real costs of the carbon tax because it mistakenly included the impact of industrial carbon prices on individual Canadians
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