Municipalities increasingly sit on the front lines of housing, climate and social challenges, but funding has lagged behind their growing responsibilities

Taxpayers on hook for million dollars due to tax avoidance scheme of reclassifying future development properties as gardens, parks while awaiting market uptick

Cities own much of Canada’s infrastructure but have limited revenue tools. A stronger municipal bond market could help close the financing gap: Luciano Arvin

Officials warn building infrastructure needed to support rapid housing growth placing unsustainable pressure on utility ratepayers and property taxpayers

New Brunswick’s Liberal government has introduced a new system of municipal property taxation, publishing a public list of appropriate property tax rates

A bullish KPMG Canada revealed at Web Summit Vancouver its junior employees must delegate tasks to AI tools, and focus instead on client relationship-building

Canadian financial policy has crowded out the risk-taking that drives productivity asserts professor of finance and chartered professional accountant Manbo He

Property taxation is regressive. Municipalities in Canada are trying to manage 21st-century realities with 19th-century fiscal tools, say local politicians

The province appears to underplay the role a robust tourism economy could play in insulating its accounts from geopolitical vagaries like the price of oil

Suspension of the federal fuel excise tax by the now majority government of Mark Carney will pressure on the UCP Smith government in Alberta to follow suit.

The provincial government is proposing to cut Ontario’s small business corporate income tax rate from 3.2 per cent to 2.2 per cent as of July 1 this year

Canadian tax lawyer and accountant David J Rotfleisch on remote work, corporate authority to bind, CRA treaty interpretation and interprovincial tax risk

The American-Israeli assault on Iran is causing prices to surge at the pumps. Taxpayer advocacy groups are now calling for gas tax cuts to lower the impact

Carney’s comments in Canberra about modernizing bilateral tax and investment treaties may indicate tax and business opportunities for Canadian accountants

British Columbia's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves, say Marc Lee and Andrew Longhurst

Alberta is reviewing the models it uses to determine the market value of regulated properties that municipalities rely on for their own tax assessments

Rambod Behboodi and Owen Clarke of BLG explain why Canadian companies should take immediate steps to establish necessary emissions tracking regimes

As of the end of 2024, property tax debt has grown to nearly $254 million, despite policies to stop deadbeat companies from acquiring new oil and gas wells

Debt balloons, projects shelved in the Brampton municipal budget after years of budget freezes as property taxpayers face a hike of just under five per cent

Continued collection attempts against people who received pandemic benefits shows a punitive logic that doesn’t fit the scale of the alleged transgressions

Our weekly Canadian accounting news roundup includes the Mark Carney in Davos, the PCAOB and FRC pressured, PwC Canada and the Martel Ponzi, and much more

To reign in some of the wage disparity, a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers two solutions: a millionaire tax and a wealth tax

Our weekly Canadian accounting news roundup includes the benefits of national membership, the downside of AI for accountants and businesses, and much more

Alberta’s moratorium on renewable projects has created a hangover effect for municipal districts that received the benefit of steady tax revenue for years

Difficult to understand need for 80% increase in Peel police budget over five years, say property taxpayers representing Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga