Muncipalities auction properties for the amount in property taxes owed (with a minimum tender bid) and will advertise sales in local and government media

Rural Municipalities of Alberta says it’s well-known in the oil and gas sector that municipalities are powerless to compel payment of unpaid property taxes

The central plank of Ottawa’s emission-reduction plan requires companies to pay a carbon price if they exceed a certain threshold of emissions intensity

"If you’re a billionaire, you don’t need it," said one Canadian billionaire. "I don’t have to come to the United States to invest in the United States."

B.C. doesn’t use the American thermal coal that passes through its ports, but the province is a key player in the global coal market, moving US coal to Asia

Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news

Four years of trade wars and tariffs from the Trump administration could slash East Coast jobs and bring misery to Maritime premiers says political analyst

While small business owners have mixed emotions about the tax holiday, some working parents were grateful for the beneficial break on goods and services

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is proposing to shift the financial burden of the carbon tax onto large corporations to fund clean energy choices

UCP Premier Danielle Smith has created a cabinet committee to find government cost savings to pay for the postponed personal income tax cut election promise

A Canadian accounting professor explains that development relationships like USAID are shaped by both the interests of donors and those of the recipients.

An export tax on Canadian oil and gas to the United States could inflict pain on the American economy but could also backfire in the States and domestically

Canadian companies and pension funds were already lobbying for appropriate tax treatment ahead of President Trump pulling out of the OECD minimum tax deal

Donald Trump has put Pierre Poilievre in a political bind, with two feuding conservative premiers, stale messaging around taxes and no coherent trade policy

Numerous factors including inflation, limited housing, a weaker dollar, and global political tensions, continue to play a significant role in affordability

Small business owners in towns like Vankleek Hill, Ontario are critical of the federal sales tax holiday, questioning its value and criticizing its rollout

Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news

Capping the stock option tax deducation is a a decisive shift away from stock options as a means of compensation but the overall salary gap remains high

There are measurable costs to carbon pricing but they pale in comparison to global factors; for many Canadians, the tax rebate is far larger than the costs

Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news

Ontario makes material change to fund OPP costs in 2025 but municipalities wonder what will happen in 2026 and beyond to offset potential property tax hikes

To integrate further through appeasement with a country that has rejected the rule of law would be to surrender Canadian sovereignty to the United States

Danny Whalen, president of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities, says the Ontario government must take back responsibility for OPP costing

A review of recent CRA changes of note affecting Saskatchewan residents, including farmers, such as electronic filing, correspondence and automatic filing

Queen's Park is doling out $77-million to help ease sticker shock in municipalities provincewide from Ontario Provincial Police increased contract costs