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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
Business
Editorial: Morneau out, Freeland in as Trudeau cuts his losses
To many Canadian accountants, Morneau would be an ideal, high net worth client
Thought Leaders
COVID-19 has exposed the limits of philanthropy
Apply a Canadian super-wealth tax to philanthropic foundations, says Adam Saifer
Profession
Friday News Roundup 20.08.14: KPMG, Grant Thornton, rehiring stats, and fraudster jailed
Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news